Renovelo (rhymes with little red HENovelo) silence is because we forgot to make a head tube decal for it, so that's going to take another 2wks, and the painter has a few ready to go. We have at least a dozen, maybe more, including the formerly ultrafancy custom, several roof-racked and now repaired frames, now with second top tubes (pallarel, not giadonal), and at least one frame that purely from a practical-money standpoint shouldn't have been repaired, because the entire frame cost us less than the repair, and it still needs a paint job.
All of our frames-bikes have had unforseeable and unfortunate delays this year, but we'll be flush in Back-to-School bikes for sure, and the influx may start before then. But we still have a decent number in stock. The last of the Japanese-built Toyo frames are trickling out, and they are as fine a frames (never got comfortable with that "a" in there, especially with plural of frame) as we have. Tweedie bags are one of the monstrous disappointments, in that the maker is delivering 3 months late (and so, we're paying it forward). In the winter we'll have some good fender news (no, not lugged!) that's not revolutionay or revelationary, but more like a noteworthy incremental step in a good direction. Poster fans, if there are any, will like some of our offerings starting this fall, so please save some wall space. Nitto has designed a new rack and we're getting a sample without knowing what it's about. Maybe it makes sense over here, maybe it just makes sense over there. Poncho news: We got samples in yesterday, two styles made just for us, at our request, by Grundens, the Rainwear Suppliers To Wet Kings Everywhere. And we have a Japanese one which may not fit large "mericans, but may fit small-to-med ones. The Splats will be here in --- well, that's another BTS product, I think. We resisted the strong, primal urge to overthink and overdesign them, and so it'll still take a strong constitution to wear them in public, but that will be reward with dry feet and a tiny divot out of your checking account. Dave and I are working on a Tree-Bustin' catalogue. It will not be encyclopedic, but will have a good representation of our stuff, and some helpful tips in it, some you've read before, and some maybe not. No "rope-around-the-tree leg squat" type tips, but don't snicker at that untl you've tried it, and then, I think, you won't snicker at all. You may be in pain, you may be bummed, but no snicker. I'm going for a ride up the mountain today--my first mtn ride in 7 weeks, my third ride TOTAL in seven weeks, and I'm taking my tree- squat strong/anaerobically fine-tuned quads with me, and my camera. G On Jun 25, 7:48 am, William <[email protected]> wrote: > Does the absence of Renovelo threads comments indicate zero interest? > Or, quite the opposite, are we all so eager to see what comes out that > it doesn't need saying, and we don't want too many people to snap them > all up? Lord knows I want my chance to see them and decide not to buy > one, rather than see that they came and went, leaving me to complain > "Unfair! I wanted one!" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
