[RBW] Re: Rivendell Mystery Bib Idea

2010-03-19 Thread Chris B
I like this idea. I'm definitely gonna get mine hooked up to the drops and use it as spinnaker. Kinda like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7201887.stm On Mar 19, 12:43 am, Mike mjawn...@gmail.com wrote: Everything taste better with melted butter! On Mar 18, 5:39 pm, Eric Norris

[RBW] Re: Child seat recommendations?

2010-03-19 Thread Chris B
Hey Harold, I've got a Hamax Siesta Recliner on a Surly Big Dummy. My son's 19 months and he's been riding around in it for a few months. He'll fall asleep in it (gentle rocking motion on quiet roads and smooth trails) and we recline it which supports his little head (we pop a soft hat on him too

[RBW] Romantic poets and cycling literature (Guardian podcast)

2010-01-29 Thread Chris B
Hi All It may be slightly off topic (my apologies if this is considered the case) but here's a link to the Guardian books podcast which is entitled TS Eliot prizewinner Philip Gross, Andrew Motion on the Romantics, and the literature of cycling. It's 31 mins long (be warned). It includes former

[RBW] Re: xo-1 - in box on ebay

2009-04-08 Thread Chris B
I think that slogan's interesting too: The Touring Machine That Carries You Ahead of It's Time It's kind of poetic in a unstructured way Most of all though, I like the Ahead of It's Time part: oh, yeah, way beyond the current swell of 10 /11 speed cassettes and carbon build materials into a

[RBW] Re: Tolkien Fans

2009-01-31 Thread Chris B
A nathema of carbon?!! Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: Paul: I first learned of Rivendell on the same website. On Jan 30, 9:47 pm, Paul Cooley pcoo...@cybermesa.com wrote: On Jan 30, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Bill M. wrote: LOTR fan that I am, I would propose A Moot of Quickbeams.

[RBW] Collective nouns for Riv's bikes

2009-01-30 Thread Chris B
Hi All The recent inaugeration bike pool photos and Grant's message that some QB's were comin' in got me thinking about collective nouns for Riv's models. Weren't many of these invented by folk while out ridin' in the country and doing country things? Thinking about this entertained me as I was