It took George's note from Australia to motivate me to respond. Aside from the bicycle pump, Wollongong and Indianapolis sound similar, even down to a bit of rust belt heritage. As I read the earlier responses I kept thinking that I have never had anything but compliments about my Hungapillar, but then I think the only riders that might want to disparage the bike, seem to ride on Tuesday and Thursday nights - and then only as a group off to themselves, whereas I am a commuter and not a pack animal...If I were an ethnosociologist I might find all this really interesting. Bob
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 7:57 PM, George Millwood <george.millw...@bigpond.com > wrote: > I have drunk the Kool Aid and I'm proud of it. My Atlantis is the perfect >> road bike for me, a sixty plus trundler of a cyclist who enjoys riding and >> couldn't give a hot buttered stuff for racing. My other bikes are a >> Specialized Shark beach cruiser which is essential as I live on a beach in >> Australia and a Birdy folding bike for which I'm waiting delivery. The >> Shark has a Brooks B68, King Cage and a Carradice and I'm planning a whole >> lot of other Rivendell bling for it and the Birdy. >> > > >> Wollongong is a rust belt city by the sea that used to be a steel town >> and is fast becoming a University town. We have a wide range of cycle >> styles meeting down by the beach for an espresso. However, the serious >> lycra set meet at Diggies café and the rest of us meet at the North Beach >> Kiosk. Both cafes are part of the same building and run by the same >> management but serious lycra does not speak to the Others. That is their >> problem and their Kool Aid, I would include the rather earthy Australian >> retort for these people but it would probably grossly offend a lot of >> innocent people. It has something to do with inserting their bicycle pump >> in the most inappropriate part of their anatomy for reasons of self >> gratification. But you must realise that Australians have always been >> rather blunt and to the point. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
