"In fact, Rivendell has been featured in Bicycling from time to time, and favorably, too."
The last time I looked at Bicycling was to see a blurb about the Atlantis, maybe 2005-ish. The writer made some inane comments about how the bike "climbed dutifully" up one hill but felt sluggish on some other hill. I haven't felt compelled to read it since. I agree that from a name recognition standpoint a lot of people who have heard good things about Rivendell don't know a Rivendell when they're looking at it, because of the un-prominence of the Rivendell name on the downtube decals. On Jan 18, 3:52 pm, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 13:46 -0800, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: > > > It's possible that they would have registered some vague > > recognition at a mention of the name "Rivendell", or that a > > prominently displayed price tag would have impressed them, but the > > frames/bikes themselves, beautiful as I think they are, didn't seem to > > interest them in the slightest. They were into brand name recognition, > > and none of the Rivendell models are likely to be on their Bicycling > > Magazine-calibrated radar. > > In fact, Rivendell has been featured in Bicycling from time to time, and > favorably, too. It's one thing to come up with oddball new model names, > but if they were simply /models/ identified as such by the traditional > name on the top tube, with "Rivendell" featured prominently on the > downtube, the way every other bicycle manufacturer does, I think brand > recognition wouldn't be such a challenge.
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