I must admit to some surprise. For quite awhile it seemed like consolidation was the order of the day. Now models seem to proliferate like rabbits. This kind of sounds like the rebirth of the Ramboulliet, a Rodeo, just a bit more practical. Since I always thought axing the Ram was a real loss; I'll celebrate this, if I'm right.
Michael On Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 5:28:22 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > The single most comprehensive RBW description was this: > > To speculateurs and 'teuses: > Le Roadini..hm. I didn't realize we'd announced anything yet, but since le > chat is out of the mussette, here's 100 percent of what there is to know > about it: > > 1. It's not going to duplicate or overlap too much any existing bike > except the Roadeo. No "85 percent Sam, but with lighter tubing." > 2. We won't burden it with "The Thinker's Road bike," or other references > to Rodin. Nothing to chuckle about or roll eyes about. > 3. It certainly won't copy existing road geometries. It'll be > well-designed from small to big, with the geometries that make our bikes > feel like our bikes. > 4. We are considering what braze-ons to include. The idea is to make it > useful, but not to encourage (for example) MFL. Do we add those little > front of the fork braze-ons for a Mark's Rack, or will that encourage > monster front loading? Practically, it would be an ideal bike for a small > bar-mount bag, like the Bar Tube or the now-gone BarSack rack (which wins > the record for the highest ratio of expected success-to-actual sales. Dang, > if we bring it back, it'll be a "last gasp" bring-back, and if you ride > drop bars you should get it). > 5. Same reach as Roadeo. Again here, Homer-Sam clearances will send the > message that it's just a featherweight Du-All, and it won't be that. > > It'll take a Jack Brown, but not with a fender. Sidepulls, but not the > Silvers with all that reach. It may have a few more braze-ons than a > Roadeo, but we haven't settled on that yet. > > It won't be a "high-plane/low-trailer," but I recognize that there's a > place for those bikes! > > It will look really good and ride like a pure road bike ought to, and will > be --- other stuff...AND > > it may have one ultra-groovy feature never seen before on any of our > bikes. This is my "take back" for being forced to reveal so much so early > on a bike that is more of a plan than settled yet! > > I really didn't know this was revealed, and I really don't mind that it > was. Usually it's me who speaks too early, so whoever wrote that > post--Roman or Dave, I guess--just made it easy for me. Anyway, it's a > 2017'er if it happens, and thanks for all of your nice comments and fun > guesses and enthusiasm! > > Grant > > On Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 10:18:33 AM UTC-8, Forrest Meyer wrote: >> >> Where? Thanks. (I know, I'm clueless, but I did look.) >> >> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
