I like seeing FS posts here, and I'm happy I can sell some things sometimes. I don't buy very much from Rivendell, but I don't buy very much of anything. My Rivendell cycling life is pretty satisfactory with what I have. Almost all my new-purchase Riv items come for Birthday/Xmas/Anniversary, which is a four-week window that just happened. Discounting the gifts, Rivendell has probably LOST money on me. I've probably led to a few sales via word-of-mouth, so maybe it's a wash. If I decide to buy a multi-thousand dollar bike, it will be a Roadeo or Legolas. Until that happens, I'll keep re-combining the bikes and parts I've got.
My non-Riv cycling life just hit a flux point, but Rivendell doesn't sell flared drop bars or 29er tires. I have bought Thin Gripsters on eBay, because I want the bright colored ones that Rivendell doesn't sell. Cables, goops, etc., I buy from the bike shop 6 blocks away. Philip www.biketinker.com On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 2:45:57 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > > Used bikes and parts are pretty much the only kind I consider buying. And > I believe I have probably sold as much or more here than I've purchased. I > appreciate your concern for RBW, but don't believe we should arbitrarily > limit the second hand market. > > > On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 9:25:03 AM UTC-8, Joe Bernard wrote: >> >> Branching off comments in another thread - and no doubt generating much >> unpopularity, but I'm a liberal who chats regularly with conservatives on >> politics sites, so I'm ok with it - this topic has been an edgy one for me >> for quite some time. There's much buying/selling that goes on here for Riv >> and Riv-ish things - I do it, too - which is fine: If you have a bag or >> stem lying around you're not using, might as well sell it, right? Right, >> but when it comes to actively searching around for "a deal" on things >> Rivendell sells, I get a little queasy about this being done on a Riv Forum >> as opposed to Ebay or Craigslist. >> >> What concerns me is that we've developed a secondary market amongst each >> other for things we can buy new from RBW, and if that market continues to >> flourish at the expense of the folks who originally provided the products, >> we're eventually going to find ourselves wondering what happened to those >> nice folks in Walnut Creek. Of course I'm not saying we have to stop >> selling things we don't need anymore, but I think we should be careful how >> hard we push the 'search' part of this activity on a Riv-specific forum. A >> while back I needed a DirtDrop stem, a headlight, and some reflectors. >> Rivendell sells them. They came expertly packed in a nice little box. >> >> Joe "soapbox" Bernard >> Vallejo, CA. >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
