On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery < [email protected]> wrote:
> > This is like the philosophical question that led to me abandoning > bicycle discussion boards for a couple years starting around 2004. The > OP of that particular discussion asked if his acquisition of an > Atlantis or Rambouillet justified his referring to himself as a > "Rivendell Owner". Some owners of custom Rivendells decided that the > word "Rivendell" had too much cachet for owners of lowly and > compromised Atlantises and Rambouillets. By that standard, your > Rambouillet doesn't qualify as a Rivendell even in its pristine state. > So you have nothing to lose, cachet-wise, by re-raking the fork. I usually hate email abbreviations, but in this case, ROTFLOL, or even better, ROTFFLOL!! Lessee, lessee, less take this idea and move forward with it. OK, my Rivs are customs, so they're real Rivs; well, at least the last two, for the first one was built by Waterford, not a Rivendell owned builder chained whimpering to his alignment table with Grant standing over him with a whip. But, OTOH (alright, I'll stop), they have smallish frames for my height and leg length and they use substandard wheels (559/571). So once again, are they genyoowine Rivs? And #3 was modified by local builder Dave Porter for fixed use. Does that make it recede from the dim, shimmering, ethereal ideal of Rivendellishness? If I use MKS (Keirin approved!!!) track pedals on my commuter Riv, but lowly Christophe straps and Kucharik toe covers, do I augment or diminish my Rivendellishness? Must I subtract points for every cm the bar is below saddle? And Flites instead of Brookses ... come now! We could carry on this thread for a decade! I say, let's have a contest to see who can pare down the concept, "Genyoowine Riv Ownership" to the smallest population. What fun! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
