Tell us more about this hypothetical rule. Or what you mean by "go to".
You've got an Appaloosa that is 9 years old. Does your new hypothetical life rule require you to A. dispose of the Appaloosa and replace it with some other bike and do the same kinds of riding? Or are you B. going to replace the Appaloosa and evolve the riding you are going to do? Or are you going to C. buy another bike, keep the Appaloosa and add an additional kind of riding? Or D. something else altogether? Which of those four spins on your life rule would probably influence what you do. I think I'm the ruled-out population because I have a lot of bikes, including a few Rivendells. The bike I've owned the longest is my 2009 Hillborne. Buying that transformed my cycling life, to some extent, and my stable pivoted around that bike. The bike that I "went to" after buying the Hillborne fit into slot C above. I decided to expand the kinds of riding I did and bought a bike to enable that new category of cycling, and that was randonneuring. (I subsequently did use my Hillborne for a few 200k and one 300k brevets, and it was excellent for that.). That rando-slot in my stable was filled with a 650B Waterford Hilsen, then a Rawland Stag, then a Norther Lyon, and now a custom Falconer (and a JPWeigle/Raleigh). Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Monday, October 6, 2025 at 1:53:29 PM UTC-7 Michael Morrissey wrote: > I like bikes and I was thinking of implementing a new life rule: buy a new > bike every ten years whether I need to or not. Of course, I don't need to. > I bought my Appaloosa in 2016 and have been happily riding it since then. > > I was wondering, people who have bought Rivendells and enjoyed them, and > then decided to get another bike, what bike did you get and why? > > Please I want to hear from normal people who own 3 or fewer Rivendells, > not people who have one of every model of Rivendell and who get personal > greeting cards from Grant Peterson. > > Where did you go from the top? Custom? Surly? Crust? Jones? Urban Arrow > for you and your offspring? Full squish mountain bike? Moto Guzzi? > Brompton? Citibike all the time? Beater 26" mountain bike? Feel free to > message me off list if you can't admit you moved away from lugged steel. > I'm just a curious bike nerd. This is not market research. > > Michael > > -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c35ed4b5-aa81-406c-977f-102fe69427b6n%40googlegroups.com.
