I believe it was Jim Thill who made a comment a while back about how he loves when a "nice" bike has some less-nice components or accessories. I agree. The tragedy is a bike that's 10 years old and is still new. I've seen FS posts like that on the list here a couple times... Somebody buys a really nice bike and outfits it with top shelf stuff, but then it sits and never goes anywhere. I remember in one instance it was health related but I'd guess others are more "now that I have my perfect bike, it's too nice to ride" kind of attitude. The bike that gets ridden is the beautiful one.
You don't need to look any further than the bottom of this recent Blug post<http://rivbike.tumblr.com/post/26844042523/great-little-book-carbs-court-relief-ms-and-tennis>for a perfect example. That's not what most of us would consider a "nice" bike, but the kid's out there touring on it. I'll bet he's having the time of his life on that bike. When River is back home talking about and remembering the trip he's not going to be concerned with whether or not shinier bits would have made it better. I'm guilty of falling into one side or the other of the "that bike is better than mine" envy (or smugness if I'm thinking it's my bike thats the better one). I try to catch myself before my head gets too big or I get too obsessive about upgrading some shiny bit. I find the more I ride the less I get trapped in the theoretical analysis of what parts I need to better my bike. Your Sam is an awesome bike. I have no idea how you have it set up now but with the turn of a few screws it can be a tourer, an off-roader, an on-roader, a trailer hauler, a basket wearer, you can fender it up and ride all winter. The beauty of a bike is more than the sum of it's shiny bits. Just ride it. On Monday, July 16, 2012 6:20:23 PM UTC-7, Scot Brooks wrote: > > Living through this last weekend's Seattle to Portland bike ride was > pretty great, and there were quite a few Riv spottings along the way. There > was a couple with two...Atlanti, Atlantises...whatever, a couple Rams at > least, and I think I spotted a Bleriot. Non compared to the Sam I saw while > waiting in the UW parking lot for the bike trucks to unload. It was a new > color 56 with double top tubes of course, nitto front and rear racks, Nigel > Smythe front and rear tweed excellence, Brooks of course, Silver shifters, > SON dynohub, Edelux (I believe) light, and the list goes on. It really was > the ultimate expression of a Sam for me. What's worse is that it made mine > look like a wretch. Mine has all the sam SORT of stuff, but just the low > brow versions of...everything. I think the bell was even better. Hopefully > it made it back to its owner, because it was there for at least 2 1/2 hours > while I was waiting, and I left at maybe 11:45pm. -- 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/-/Vz4yayDFXSQJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
