Great conversation! Now we need to read your story @lungisam!!! Anyway, my parents bought my an '84 Allez while in HS. Rode it all over during HS and college. Serious, a lot of miles on that bike, but I did figure out it was a bit too small for me (a 58cm) and that it didn't quite fit the bigger tires I was being drawn to. Graduation in '94, what do I need? A mountain bike! So I stumble across B'stone JUST prior to their going out of business liquidation sale through Beverly Hills Bicycle (so what you will about them, they treated me right!). End up w/ an a '94 MB-2<http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyclotourist/2863214487/>and a '93 MB-6 for my wife (also a Gary Fisher HKEK, but that's an other story...). Rode those all over, Big Bear, commuting, trails, beach, whatever. And now I'm hooked. Become a BOB member, but just don't have the $$$ to pick up a blow-out XO-1. That's the one that got away you know!
Couple years go by, and I am able to get an RB-T. WOW, that was a GREAT bike! Skinny-tubed rough-stuff bike that goes anywhere. I'm passing mountain bikers on the trails both way on it. It's official, I'm now an under-biker! Y2K and I finish grad-school and am gainfully employed for the first time. Damn, I need a bike that does it all. I'll probably never be able to do this again, so better do it right... custom Rivendell it is! A year or so later, what started out as a 29er ends up as a 700c all-rounder do it all bike. Probably should have got an Atlantis which was just starting production around the same time. Probably should have got vertical drop outs, but I thought this was the one bike that would do it all. Probably should have kept it as a full-on 29er tire, but I had a MB-2 for that. So a few compromises I designed into it that I shouldn't have, but still it ends up as the bike I hope to have as long as I know what bikes are. And what better bike to have a virtual-shine<http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyclotourist/sets/72157602592825848/>built for!?!?!? So that's my story and I'm sticking to it! On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:51 PM, charlie <cl_v...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I received a catalog from them at a Seattle bike show......heck it could > have been Grant who handed it too me. I had been riding a recumbent until > then but had a Bianchi race bike back in the 80's and a Nishiki 'touring' > bike that I had Davidson cycles modify and paint. My wife and I also owned > two of the first lugged Stumpjumpers purchased from Greenlake cycles in > Seattle....so to make a long story short, I appreciated the lugged steel > frame idea and the practical side of riding as I had been a bicycling > commuter when it wasn't that popular to be one. In fact my first road > bicycle was a Volkscycle brand that (I think a 25 inch frame but too big > for me) I rode the beans out of it to high school in the 70's and a 20 mile > round trip no less. I've always worked on my own bicycles and wanted > something I understood and didn't like the new indexed shifting. As a guy > in my 40's I had a beer gut and wanted to ride something comfortable and > flexible. The narrow tires just didn't seem right for my then 280+ pounds. > I purchased several old bikes and Rivized them and a Surly Trucker as I > slowly worked my way to my first Rivendell which turned out to be a > SimpleOne then later a Sam Hillborne. As of late I have a strong desire to > downsize and simplify and have only one bicycle and I may sell every > bicycle I own and buy either a Hunk or an Atlantis in my size with a > generator lighting system and top components. That's probably what I will > do....... soon. > > > On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:06:10 AM UTC-7, lungimsam wrote: > >> So how did you originally find out about them, and why/where/how did you >> get your first Rivendell bike? >> > -- > 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/-/Or46Szg_q9cJ. > > 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. > -- Cheers, David Redlands, CA ** "The good thing about *science* is that it's *true* whether or not you * believe* in it." -- *Neil deGrasse Tyson*. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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.
