Here's my datapoint for the Rivendell marketing department... Let's see- somehow in the 90s I got ahold of a couple Bridgestone catalogues, which I still have in my possession. Then I met Grant at a bike show at the Cow Palace in SF, in the early aughts. By then my Trek 560 was around 15 yrs old. He was there by himself with his lugs, one of which he gave me, and spoke quietly and passionately about steel. I started subscribing to RR, but never thought I'd own a Riv. I guess it was aspirational, but I like how he writes and I still think of Ti mining as suspect environmentally, because, I thought, of that great piece on metals he did in one of the B'stone catalogues. I reread it recently and I don't think he points to Ti mining's environmental impact, but that was the first time I'd read anything that compare it side-by-side with Al and steel. So great.
Anyhow, fast forward to about a year ago, and while training for the Grizzly Peak Century I found my back just didn't like my Trek anymore. At the same time I was jonesing for a decent city bike, a reincarnated 70s-80s steel lugged frame, but never got around to it. Somehow, on a whim my wife and I decided to try out a coupla Rivs at RWHQ. She said, well if you rode a bike for 25 yrs by now, a new one will be as good an investment. And I had to rid of a coupla beaters/projects, which I did. And so that's how I ended up with an AHH, which still gets hit on at least 80% of the time I'm out with it. Today, I love seeing people in street clothes on bikes, bikes with slender tubes and fat tires, with fenders and front racks, lovely luggage (the nicest piece of luggage in our house is my Sackville Saddlesack!); even a canvas and leather shoulder bag (non-bike) caught my eye today. TSW Berkeley 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/-/Z8TZOlnFkA0J. 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.
