On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 James / Analog Cycles wrote: *"I think if Rivendell was being created now, rather than in 1994, Grant would have a very different view on tubeless, disc brakes, rim profiles etc."*
I disagree. Just because someone is a certain age doesn't mean all of their likes and proclivities are defined simply by what was or was not available when they were thirty. I'm a handful of years younger than Grant, and I know lots of riders older than either he or I who embrace discs, tubeless, what have you. Choosing not to use these technologies is not so much about nostalgia or being retro or grumpy retro or this works so why "improve" it. It's more about the relationship of us humans to the technologies we use, and what a given technology does to the experience, as well as to us, our culture, and the physical spaces we create in the world. My reasoning doesn't always completely overlap with Grant's, but we often reach the same conclusion. A twenty-year old could also hold these values and views of the world.(True, they would have to be wise for their years...) James writes: *"... rims, spokes, even hubs are so much better today than they were 10 years ago. Old rim profiles were flexy, old hubs were clunky and had slow engagement."* No doubt you are right! Please send me all your clunky old 8-10 speed Dura Ace and XTR hub sets. I'll spend my lonely nights lacing them to noodly old Open Pros or CR-18s, or some NOS 26" Weinmanns or Mavis or Arayas. Now that I'm old I guess it won't bother me so much to wait for them to slowly engage... -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c7258262-2cd8-479d-81f5-45f6d948e58e%40googlegroups.com.
