I've been researching/agonizing/flip-flopping over what my first Riv is going to be for a little over a month.... I had basically ruled the Bomba out (deciding, if I wanted a beefy tourer, on the Hunqa instead), leaving me with just the Atlantis, Roadeo, AHH and Hunqa. Now, with this bike that looks like it could be ridden by a brown bear and not flex, I again really have no idea. Wrong to want them all?
On Sep 9, 10:07 pm, james black <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 21:52, grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > And FYI, I had a Christina Hendrick-less version of the Bombadil pdf > > ready to go if there was any... offense, or umbrage, or something else > > taken. > > You're a brave man. > > I will now elaborate on why I like this new Bombadil, and not just > because Grant has told us that we don't need to tell him we like it; > but because my first message didn't say much. > > First of all, the fork is perfect. Even a Long Haul Trucker would be a > thing of beauty if it had that fork attached to it. Whoever is > responsible for specifying or fabricating the bend of that fork > deserves a beer. > > Second, of all the bikes in the world, this may be the only one that > conceptually ought to have that decorative Hetchins-y curly downtube > extension. Because of the Bombadil's Anglophile heritage, and because > of its robust baroque uniqueness, and because it proudly has every > braze-on and every feature, including an extra diagatube. > > I perceive this new Bombadil, purely based on its image in this grainy > PDF alone, as the next great bike in the heritage of Rivendell > production framesets, following in the path of the Atlantis, > Rambouillet, and Quickbeam. > > I bet it won't shimmy. > > James Black -- 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.
