Re: [RBW] Re: Check this Bombadil!
or you can just use a mac. the built-in Preview has a "reduce file size" option when you are saving PDFs. best, andrew On Sep 10, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Earl Grey wrote: > Yes, truly, a bike for a post-apocalyptic world. > > As a complete aside (and as a former Adobe employee), Grant, if you > are still reading, if you get yourself a copy of Adobe Acrobat > Professional, you can make pdfs that are 10% the size of this 10MB > whopper and get better quality to boot. I had a hard time waiting > patiently for the bomba payload to download. > > Cheers, > > Gernot > > PS: Contact me off-list if you want more detailed info. > > > On Sep 10, 7:27 pm, Seth Vidal wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:30 AM, cyclotourist wrote: >>> Captain Mal approves this comment! >> >> Take my love, take my land >> Take me where I cannot stand >> I don't care, I'm still free >> You can't take MY BIKE from me >> >> -sv > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Check this Bombadil!
On Sep 10, 2010, at 12:01 PM, James Valiensi wrote: No, it is more like this one: http://www.mombat.org/SeriesiSide.jpg Oh yah, that'll be the first "suspension fork" from Rivendell, a springer. ;) Rob in Seattle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Check this Bombadil!
No, it is more like this one: http://www.mombat.org/SeriesiSide.jpg At least both bikes are from the same part of the world. On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Esteban wrote: > I heard about this last spring and I've been waiting to see this for a > long time. Totally worth the wait. All those braze-ons! > > The diga-tube/stays make for a very elegant look. And classicists > need not fret! The general idea appears on vintage porteurs & > randonneuses: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/40203...@n04/4308345430/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/24393...@n07/4809776432/ > > Fantastic do-all, tour/trail worthy, unique, completely-Rivish bike. > A winner! > > Esteban > San Diego, Calif. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > James Valiensi, PE Northridge, CA H818.775.1847 M.818.585.1796 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Check this Bombadil!
William mused: It is kind of zaftig, come to think of it. --- Oh, ja, zaftig! An absolutely perfect word. -- Jon ³Papa² Grant Illustration + Information Graphics Austin, Texas [email protected] 512-284-9599 Drawings ‹ all sorts -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Check this Bombadil!
+1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joe_bunik/4494454218/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Check this Bombadil!
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:56 AM, William wrote: > I'm a little surprised that nobody has said they hate it or that it's > ugly. Maybe the group has weeded out the voices of dissent. I > expected somebody to gripe that the additional tubes were overkill on > an already overbuilt bike. I admit that i wasn't crazy about the early drawings of the diagonatube, but having it continue through to a third set of stays really makes the design work for me. I'm not sure it's a bike that i'd get right now, but it's a beautiful frame. If i had one, it would take a whole day just to look it over and appreciate the work that went into making it. I'm more immediately interested in the forks, they look great. Need to measure my headtubes to see if it'll work on one of my tall frames. -- Bill Connell St. Paul, MN -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Check this Bombadil!
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:22 AM, bingomck wrote: > I've been researching/agonizing/flip-flopping over what my first Riv > is going to be for a little over a month I had basically ruled > the Bomba out (deciding, if I wanted a beefy tourer, on the Hunqa > instead), leaving me with just the Atlantis, Roadeo, AHH and Hunqa. > Now, with this bike that looks like it could be ridden by a brown bear > and not flex, I again really have no idea. Wrong to want them all? > it's not wrong, expensive, but not wrong. -sv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Check this Bombadil!
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:30 AM, cyclotourist wrote: > Captain Mal approves this comment! > Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take MY BIKE from me -sv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Check this Bombadil!
I love it. I'm now saving for one. This is a "classic" riv that will live on and is worthy of the name. I agree with James - on the "next great bike" comment, though I would add the Hilsen/Saluki to that squadron. This has the beauty that draws me to the Riv line, but can still tow a trailer for 30 years through the back woods... Brian On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:30 PM, cyclotourist wrote: > Captain Mal approves this comment! > > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: > >> > >> >> The only important role I can think of her playing was as our Miss >> Reynolds on Firefly. >> >> but maybe there's another tv show out there now, too. >> >> :) >> >> -sv >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Cheers, > David > Redlands, CA > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Check this Bombadil!
Captain Mal approves this comment! On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: > > > > The only important role I can think of her playing was as our Miss > Reynolds on Firefly. > > but maybe there's another tv show out there now, too. > > :) > > -sv > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Cheers, David Redlands, CA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Check this Bombadil!
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 21:52, grant wrote: > And FYI, I had a Christina Hendrick-less version of the Bombadil pdf > ready to go if there was any... offense, or umbrage, or something else > taken. You're a brave man. I will now elaborate on why I like this new Bombadil, and not just because Grant has told us that we don't need to tell him we like it; but because my first message didn't say much. First of all, the fork is perfect. Even a Long Haul Trucker would be a thing of beauty if it had that fork attached to it. Whoever is responsible for specifying or fabricating the bend of that fork deserves a beer. Second, of all the bikes in the world, this may be the only one that conceptually ought to have that decorative Hetchins-y curly downtube extension. Because of the Bombadil's Anglophile heritage, and because of its robust baroque uniqueness, and because it proudly has every braze-on and every feature, including an extra diagatube. I perceive this new Bombadil, purely based on its image in this grainy PDF alone, as the next great bike in the heritage of Rivendell production framesets, following in the path of the Atlantis, Rambouillet, and Quickbeam. I bet it won't shimmy. James Black -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Check this Bombadil!
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Ian Dickson wrote: > It really does look great. And now I know who Christina Hendricks is, > so on the whole, this was a good visit to the old RBW Owners Bunch. > The only important role I can think of her playing was as our Miss Reynolds on Firefly. but maybe there's another tv show out there now, too. :) -sv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Check this Bombadil!
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:46 AM, grant wrote: > All you guys who like the Bombadil are so nice, and it's not important > to make my evening/week or anything like that, and I'm pretty well -- > well, I'm not---well, let me just say thanks---don't feel obliged to > be nice about something if you don't like it (or offended if we do it > anyway), but this time, yikes, it's really nice to read, and thank > you. Grant, I don't think anyone here is being nice to make you feel better. It really is a great looking bike. Having said that - feel better soon - being sick sucks - if that's what you meant by being not well. -sv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
