[RBW] Re: Rivelo closing in January

2020-01-03 Thread jack loudon
Many of the bike shops in Seattle have shifted more to maintenance/repairs. Lucky for them, an astounding number of bicylists (present company excepted, of course) barely know how to add air to their tires, let alone do anything more complicated. On Thursday, January 2, 2020 at 10:17:33 AM U

[RBW] Re: Rivelo closing in January

2020-01-02 Thread Joe Bernard
I can't even imagine how hard it is to support a physical store in The Age Of Amazon. I'm thinking..SUPER hard. -- 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

[RBW] Re: Rivelo closing in January

2020-01-02 Thread Philip Williamson
And Breadwinner is closing their cafe. They are still going with frames and Sugar Wheels, but it seems from the outside that the Portland bike scene has contracted dramatically, I hope John keeps on as a focus of the “Ride Bikes Shoot Film” movement. I just replaced the bellows on an old Agfa/

[RBW] Re: Rivelo closing in January

2020-01-01 Thread Alex Wirth- Owner, Yellow Haus Bicycles
Norther too? Gah! -- 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 discussion on the web visit ht

[RBW] Re: Rivelo closing in January

2019-12-31 Thread BSWP
I was glad to visit John's shop on my riding visit to Portland. I think it's a really hard market, and maybe especially so in Portland, where there seem to be as many bespoke boutique bike shops as brewpubs and beardwax purveyors. The market can only bear so many... I hear Norther Cycles is goi

[RBW] Re: Rivelo closing in January

2019-12-31 Thread Jonathan D.
As we closeout 2019, I want to thank Rivelo for the five years. It is a wonderful shop and Darby and John were always kind, patient and helpful. I bought my Joe there and still have a few things to pick up. I will miss Rivelo but glad they are keeping the Instagram going. I also hope Portla

[RBW] Re: Rivelo closing in January

2019-12-27 Thread Mark Roland
Any retail endeavor is really, really, really hard to pull off these days. Retail bicycles, add another really. Non-mainstream, non-disc bikes, add another really. Adding in unrelated products to a specialty niche store, which tends to confuse many consumers, add another really. When the added

[RBW] Re: Rivelo closing in January

2019-12-26 Thread Matt Dreher
It's a terrible world that doesn't have a place for a shop that sells nice bicycles and cameras and Bob Dylan records, but unfortunately we live in it. On Thursday, December 26, 2019 at 8:25:24 PM UTC-6, velomann wrote: > > From Instagram today: https://www.instagram.com/rivelo_pdx/ > > As a loca

[RBW] Re: Rivelo closing in January

2019-12-26 Thread Jason Fuller
Aww no :( I live 7 hours north but was looking forward to making a trip out of visiting this coming summer. -- 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