Re: [RBW] Lovely Bicycle blogs again!

2020-04-02 Thread Dorothy C
I am also a knitter - learnt when I was 7. I don't have much call for sweaters in SoCal where I live now, but I still knit hats. -- 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 i

Re: [RBW] Lovely Bicycle blogs again!

2020-04-02 Thread Dorothy C
I first heard about Rivendell from Lovely Bicycle. I stumbled across her original blog when she wrote about her Raleigh. I'm originally from the UK and my first nice bike as a teenager was a dark blue Raleigh with white wall tires. At 12 years old, that bike was so tall for me that I had to use

Re: [RBW] Lovely Bicycle blogs again!

2020-04-01 Thread 'Tom M' via RBW Owners Bunch
Hey, her blog got me to test ride a titanium bike. Seriously. Because she was so open and honest about her abilities as a cyclist, and because her impressions of whatever bike she was riding seemed so well thought out, I believed what she wrote about the Seven she had for a while. That convince

Re: [RBW] Lovely Bicycle blogs again!

2020-04-01 Thread Steve Cole
Joe, Thanks for pointing this out. It’s great news at least to this lister. When I first encountered “Lovely Bicycle,” I was a little spellbound. Whatever Velouria wrote, it spoke to me. Her love of cycling, her childlike wonder was infectious. New blog entries never were frequent enough. Th

Re: [RBW] Lovely Bicycle blogs again!

2020-04-01 Thread Joe Bernard
Not big news on the Riv List apparently... -- 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 view this discus

Re: [RBW] Lovely Bicycle blogs again!

2020-04-01 Thread Joe Bernard
- (Someone chastised Waugh for claiming to be a Christian while being so nasty. He replied to the effect that, "Oh, if I weren't a Christian, I'd be far, far worse.") - Hehe, I enjoyed that. I have a somewhat similar background to Waugh which I've never discussed here and won't now, but it hold

Re: [RBW] Lovely Bicycle blogs again!

2020-04-01 Thread Patrick Moore
There are hundreds if not thousands of cycling blogs of one sort or another "out there," but, at least for my tastes, few that one really looks forward to reading; the critical difference often (not always) being a certain literary quality; and this quality depends far less on education and learnin

[RBW] Lovely Bicycle blogs again!

2020-04-01 Thread Joe Bernard
I saw this on the iBob and thought you non-Bobbers (there's a few) would be interested. Hey, remember when I got in that big fight over there because I defended her not announcing the end of her cycling blog? That was great fun. Here's a new one which may or may not continue to be about bikes, i