Nice ride story. The part about the guy thinking the bike is from the 60's leaves me thinking the following: Did bikes from the 60's have:
upward sloping toptubes with 6 degree angles? multiple rack braze-ons, especially the midfork and midstay ones? 135 mm rear spacing that allows 9 or 10 speed clusters? headtubes with upward vertical extension for height? cable-stops that allow discontinuous cable housing? vertical rear dropouts? (I actually don't know the answer to this) Were most of the features above even common in the 90's? I usually get the comment that my Ram is an "older bike" but people don't say from when. Once in a while, the person has thought before they said this, and they say something right on target like, "I'm noticing your bike: it's interesting in that it looks like an old classic, but all the details show modern components." This is my favorite comment. The former, however, saddens me a little, because it fails to notice the innovative spirit behind the design of the bike: the spirit that equally values all good bike developments, whether they happened two minutes ago or 2 score years ago. -Jim W. -----Original Message----- >From: "Darin G." <[email protected]> about the Sam One guy guessed it was from the 1960's. -- 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.
