Same of automotive interests; the majority are well-served by appliance-quality offerings. Alleged enthusiasts are often narrow of interst or exposure. Many self described performance auto buffs would have would be amazed by a personal tour of car with a modern in-line six with variable DOHC and other subtle technical features.
Many of those fans' narrow vision or interest places them in less than full-solution transportation unless able to fill the garage with special interest examples besides their daily drivers. Same hurdle for cyclists based on the "thin the herd" posts announcing bikes for sale here. It takes individuals able to identify themselves separately from the passion of their enthusiast vein in order to appreciate other formulas, same with the bicycling public and, as we all have groaned, the cycling press. 650B is not going away, it will just not be easy enough to justify to dealers of Trek & Specialized to force them into floor planning a model and some tires to those non-believers/glacier speed adopters. ANDY Pittsburgh On Jun 7, 5:43 pm, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 13:33 -0700, Jan Heine wrote: > > > Oh, and I couldn't help but laugh when I read that 650B wheels were > > used on "French cruiser and city bikes." I guess the wonderful > > randonneur bikes of the 1950s look like "cruiser bikes" to modern > > mountain bike journalists! > > You are assuming those modern mountain bike journalists have ever seen > any of those wonderful randonneur bikes of the 1950s. I think not -- > but if they did I agree, they wouldn't recognize them. > > I'll go farther: given how mountain bikes pretty much are actually used > by the vast majority of customers, had we in the USA any knowledge of > those 650B randonneur bikes of the 1950s, the mountain bike would never > have gotten off the ground. A 650B randonneur, possibly with a flat or > riser bar, is a hundred times better answer to the problem 90% of > mountain bike purchasers were actually trying to solve. -- 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.
