One thing to consider is that owning a Rivendell is different than owning any other bike in my experience of one. On a Rivendell you can think you wanted a road bike and possibly get a Hillsen. But something magical happens as you ride roads. A Rivendell enhances our senses so we can hear the back roads and trails calling out to us. Pass a dirt road and the beast pauses a crank, dips and tilts her head, longing to answer the siren's call.
You will find you ride more terrain that you realized you wanted to. It will be astonishingly fun. You may even want to try that whacky S24O camping thing. After all it's one night and great adventure can happen in one night, down those beckoning roads and trails. So my suggestion is what Grant guided me toward, without actually saying it. Get a bike that you can ride the roads just fine with and that can handle the rough and loaded stuff too. If you end up "needing" a road specific bike after that, that means you are riding a lot and what a grand success to be enjoying a bike so much you "need" another! Grin. With abandon, Patrick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
