I enjoyed that long description of the Joe on the Blug. A couple of favorite passages:
*If you go about riding thinking there’s nothing you shouldn’t be able to conquer, you’ll eventually wreck something; so don’t think it’s you vs terrain. ... The woods aren’t your gym and hiking isn’t failure, it’s just a way to rest your pedaling muscles, activate other ones, and slow down enough to look up and down and around.* *Don’t save the Appaloosa for special rides just because it’s beautiful. If your heirs inherit a pristine bike they’ll figure you were a collector, and they’ll be afraid to ride perfect-condition pedal-bike, so they’ll sell it to a stranger.* As someone who has done many estate sales and cleanouts, and otherwise gone through dead people's stuff, that last one resonates with me. Just yesterday, an auctioneer was dropping off loads of smalls, and I said man, I hope I get rid of all my crap so nobody has to go through it all. They'll just find me laying among a big pile of bicycles and bicycle parts. All well-used, of course. As for redundancies and overlap, all Rivendells are going to have attributes that make them functional, versatile, and comfortable. The Rodeo, never mind the Joe or the Atlantis, is no doubt six times better and more capable than 92% of the bikes that traveled the countryside coast to coast in the 70s. I would say, given their take on bicycles, they've done a good job of keeping things fresh and exciting, even if the differences between models are sometimes a bit subtle. But a significantly lower price point is not subtle! On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 11:07:18 PM UTC-5, Reid wrote: > > Just read the latest Blug that goes on about the Appaloosa. Seems to make > the case that the Appaloosa is better for touring in many cases than the > Atlantis, and better for a wider variety of terrain. So why retain the > Atlantis? > > Reid > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
