That's me, I think. I abbreviate Quickbeam QB, but I've never said
that. Out on a ride a couple weeks ago someone did say, A Rivendell
Quickbeam! Which seems like what it is.
And how could you NOT say Hunqapillar every chance you got?
Philip
On Aug 6, 4:20 pm, Johnny Alien
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On Saturday, August 6, 2011 1:31:44 AM UTC-4, grant wrote:
*I don't think of a Sam Hillborne as a lesser Rivendell just because
it's less expensive than A. Homer or something else.
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*In the early 2000s I never said anything but it bothered me when somebody
would refer to their
Leslie, I have the opposite problem: I don't like the abbreviations, like
Hunqa. That one drives me crazy. I remember many years ago someone (Beth, I
think) refused to say Rambo because it sounded too macho, so she went with
Ramby. That was kinda cute. :-)
Joe sometimes say Riv, but try not to
I like to call my Sam Hillborne Sam, Hillborne, Sam Hillborne or my
Rivendell. I kind of use them interchangeably, but I definitely consider
my Sam to be a Rivendell.
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On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Leslie leslie.bri...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, August 6, 2011 1:31:44 AM UTC-4, grant wrote:
Rambouillet is a mouthful compared to Ram or Riv or bike, and
although I try not to say Rambo, yeah, sometimes I do...
I thought Ramboo was short for Rambouillet;
I only abbreviate on the web when I wrote because I am lazy. In real life I
always say the full name.
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Will often abbreviate my bike to Sam Hill. As in what in
the . . . ?
Eric Platt
St. Paul, MN
On Aug 6, 6:20 pm, Johnny Alien johnnyal...@verizon.net wrote:
I only abbreviate on the web when I wrote because I am lazy. In real life I
always say the full name.
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On Saturday, August 6, 2011 8:30:53 PM UTC-4, EricP wrote:
Will often abbreviate my bike to Sam Hill. As in what in the . . . ?
I've often thought that was a good nickname for it, too...
Re-reading what I wrote, I don't mean to imply that I'm so lazy when I speak
that I *have* to
Is that a Schwinn? No, it's a Hilsen by Rivendell, made by Waterford. Ahh,
Waterford..they made my Paramount. No, that's a Paramount made by Schwinn in
Japan. Who's on first? Right!
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cm, I wish I could adopt your attitude! Well, I'm trying. I see your logic
and I respect Grant's decisions to swim against the current, in many ways.
However, my gut feeling is more similar to the OP's: I would like to see
Rivendell on my downtube. Oh well, the Bleriot is a beautiful bike
I view each model as a brand in itself; I suspect this is the thinking
behind it anyway.Rather than restrict the creative outlet of cool names
and graphics for bikes by just doing the same thing every time, they just
make a whole new spiel when they design a new bike.
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The issue is line extension, and some are for it, some against it.
Bstone---Panasonictwo bike companies with extreme line-extension---
electronics, car tires, building pylons, rubber polution control
products, cameras, home appliances. I think we all like Bstones some,
but it was NOT easy to
A story I've neglected to tell here...
A month ago, the kids and I were riding the Greenbelt (our in-town
bike/walking trail). I usually take notice of other bikes along the way,
hoping to catch the fella that had a green Quickbeam (only other Riv I've
seen on the Greenbelt, aside from my
I don't see how reserving the Rivendell logotype for customs makes any
sense at all. It's the company name, not the model.
Schwinn didn't reserve Schwinn for only high-end bikes, nor does Serotta
refrain from putting Serotta on production frames, etc etc.
Further, the only people you're
I like not having Rivendell on my Ram or Bleriot. I like that the graphics
all go together without the need to put the company's name in big letters. I
also think the graphics are much better on the non-Customer bikes than the
custom-- who doesnt love airplanes, sheep, boats, etc? It helps make
When i got my Hillborne, i too thought it strange that it wasn't
labeled a Rivendell, but i also understood the history of them keeping
the customs as Rivendell branded and the off-the-shelf frames as
Rivendell inspired. In the end, what does having a Rivendell branded
bike really get the buyer?
In a technical sense using Rivendell on customs seems perfectly
appropriate to me. For the production bikes, there's a name given to the
production model that helps the customers categorize the bikes according to
characteristics that distinguish one from another. There are fundamental
ways
I really enjoy the fact that Rivs aren't splashed with the brand name all
over the bike too. I'm thinking of my Trek here, that thing says TREK in
about 8 different areas on the bike. Kind of ridiculous.
I didn't know about Rivendells until a friend of mine showed up to a ride
using a
This reminds me, I've gotten a couple comments about the nice Schwinn I'm
riding. They of course did a double, or tripple take when trying to read A.
Homer Hilsen on the side, trying to see what it really was. I just grinned
and thanked them.
I would not have minded pointing out it was a
My assumption is that it is the result of Rivendell - the original
production models from Waterford - becoming the high-end customs, so they
needed a way to differentiate the production Atlantis from the customs, then
kept at the practice as they became more of a production bike company
again.
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