on 4/7/11 8:53 AM, PATRICK MOORE at [email protected] wrote: > Just for the record: my interest in the text and my reason for > referring to it was not the writing style but the message: don't > obsess over the looks of your bikes, they are meant for riding, though > riding has no quarrel with looks. > > I am surprised by the many photos I see of bikes that are showroom > floor clean. Either they are not ridden, or, more likely, the owners > spend as much time cleaning them as riding them. Now I do live in a > dry climate, but mine get washed about 3 times a year. (I am very > careful about keeping the drivetrain cleaned and lubed.) I am too busy > fixing flats to clean them more often than that.
The other thing that happens is that when I actually wrangle my sloth and clean the bike, I end up wanting to document that. So, I end up with images from the squeaky clean end o' the spectrum. A place just north of Brigadoon. Dirty bikes. Clean drivetrains. Each bicycle increases exponentially the possibility that none of them will work properly. - J -- Jim Edgar [email protected] -- 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.
