Thanks, best post in some time. I enjoy this list for the riv content but also for the generally respectful, simpatico tone.
Oh, the photos you are starting to post from your trip on your blog ( http://bikenoir.blogspot.com/ ) are great! Any chance you'll write a ride report? Cheers, JimD On Jul 13, 2012, at 10:28 PM, erik jensen wrote: > this thread started before i left to ride my atlantis across the cascades and > elsewhere, and i return to see it continues. that's funny! > > anyone who has read this list always knows that there are always going to be > people who pop in to troll or otherwise; posts of the sort "look at me, i > like ALL bikes why don't you you ignoramus." > > But it doesn't really work that way, this is a place where people who want to > talk about lugged bikes will. Like every place on the internet, people will > always want to come in and yell about how that place doesn't really get it, > as we may be tempted to otherwise. I subscribe, as there are also some really > good ride reports that come up, but I bit my keyboarding tongue a lot about a > whole variety of things. I think people like to make up stories about so and > so having ideology x, y or z, because it's just easier that way. It happens > on this list, it happens to all sorts of people with any sort of recognition, > it's terribly easy and terribly boring--human, all too human, right? > > I really wish the biggest problem worth discussion was that us mean rivendell > list members were dissuading significant portions of the public from riding > bicycles made of carbon fiber, but I bet you can count the number of times > that happens every year without trying too hard. That said, the rhetoric is > really bias the other way. This isn't a debate between two equal sides in > other words, and so don't construe peoples energy and love of a niche group > to be conflated with koolaid or ideology as much as it is with embracing and > pursuing an approach they probably have very little of in the place they > live. I lived in Omaha, NE, for some time--how many rivendells are there? I > know of 2, maybe? > > I recommend anyone engaged by a two week long argument on the internet step > outside and remember we live on a fragile rock hurtling through the enormity > of an infinite cosmos. > > It's not what you have or say, but it's what you do. > > What have all the posters in this thread been doing? I'd much rather hear > about that. > > Ride on, > > erik > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Scott Henry <[email protected]> wrote: > I have no problems talking about Rivs, I do it routinely. > I have a problem talking bad about carbon because someone told you not to > like it. > > A bike is a bike. Ride them all. Don't talk anyone out of riding anything. > > And personally, I like obnoxious women. > Scott > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure where you got slow comfort bikes from. > > As for talking about rivs.. It is the Rivendell group ... So do you complain > on the Ford group that they don't like Chevys. Probably.. :) > > Actually I have many bikes in the garage... Steel aluminum, and carbon. > > I've had two carbon frames break, one carbon fork, two carbon stems, one seat > post break. > > Haven't broke the others yet > > I am not afraid to ride carbon , just not fond of the way it fails. > > I'm an obnoxious opinionated jerk.. And blame it on women in general.. What's > your excuse. > > Kelly > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/kqbSXfogzrsJ. > 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. > > > > -- > 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. > > > > -- > oakland, ca > bikenoir.blogspot.com > > -- > 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. -- 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.
