Nice interview eric, thanks for posting this.
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On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 8:41:11 AM UTC-7, Eric Norris wrote:
Interesting interview with Jan, in which he suggests that,
Ultimately, we shouldn’t divide the bicycle world into racers and
non-racers and this and that. In the end, we
I first bought a Ram in 2003 and eventually bought tires from Jan. Today I
am riding a custom bike designed around some Riv geo and have continued to
use Jan's tires ( 700x28 Cerfs). After years of using tires like these I am
finally seeing club riders biting the bullet and switching to larger
In an apparent World of Relativity , all choices made, regardless and
absolutely, are relatively meaningless ;)
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I'm also going to say again the namecalling and pigeonholing goes back to
the bike rags.
This is a city bike. This is a hybrid. If it's steel, it must be one or
the other.
It has always worked that way in fly fishing, too. When Ted Leeson wrote a
rod review, everybody went out to buy it
Grant really is offering an alternative to the industry mainstream. I
think the strides the industry is making in the direction of more sensible
products has a lot to do with Grant's soapbox.
But it was, afterall, the bike rags who threw the first stick -
retrogrouch.
Thank you, I'll be
Nice interview/story. I'm glad we have folks like Jan and Grant (spelled
his last name wrong in Bicycle Story!) and others.
On a note related to the quote: The weather is improving in the Boston
area, and cyclers are coming back out for the commute to/from work. Bicycle
traffic is a thing--
On 03/25/2015 01:43 PM, Ron Mc wrote:
I'm also going to say again the namecalling and pigeonholing goes back
to the bike rags.
American road cyclists were divided into /tourists/ and /racers/ back
when Bicycling magazine had just graduated from being a mimeographed
sheet. The bikes were
