Howdy folks I think the original Atlantis was really more of a somewhat stoutened All Rounder (which was intended to be good for a lot of things ;^) than a true touring bike. Also, going back to the beginning, IMHO RBW wasn't really about hand crafted bikes (although that aspect was celebrated). Having Waterford, then others, make them was the only way to get what GP wanted to offer. I think GP would have been happy to offer batch made/low production bikes from the beginning, if it had been feasible...
Doug On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Ryan Merrill <crccpadu...@gmail.com> wrote: > The one thing Rivs are are versatile machines and I don't think the new > Atlantis can be pigeon holed like that. The original Atlantis was a touring > bike, but how many people turned it into a trail bike? That's the way I > had mine set up and I never once toured on it. Worked pretty well on the > trails. > > On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 3:01:04 PM UTC-5, John Phillips wrote: >> >> Grant wrote, >> >> "We've ridden a lot of bikes, lots of variations, and we live surrounded >> by roads and trails no more than 15 minutes by bike away. It's not DP-Rocky >> Mtn style, but as BL and JW and other locals will attest, it's hard to >> beat. More important, we ride them. I admittedly don't have the challenges >> of fitting bikes into elevators or navigating 3-floor walkups, and I'm >> sympathetic to those who do, but that's what Bromptons are for." >> >> So...the Atlantis is changing from a touring bike to a Mt. Diablo >> trail/fire road model for East Bay, non-multi-modal commuting, ranch home >> owners? To me this is clear as mud, and it seems like a very small >> demographic to be aiming at. >> > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
