On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:03 PM, colin p. cummings
<colinthehip...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Contemplating selling my two Rivs and wondering, if I did, what would
> be a good replacement?  Think used, older, lugged, similar geometries,
> touring.  Thanks for the help.  Stuff for sale to follow soon.
>
> Colin Cummings


Why? Definite, concrete dislikes or, at least, recognized and defined areas
of insufficiency, or just a vague itch for change?  My 3 Rivs have been
custom, so I was spared dislikes a priori, but whenever I think to myself,
"Shit, man! You don't need a $XXXX.00 bicycle! You're completely happy on a
$200 Motobecane with new, $200 Phil French bb!" I take another ride on one
of the Rivs and begin once again inwardly to sing praises of Grant for his
wonderful bikes.

Put it this way: if you had a 198X Trek X20 or a 197X Motobecane Grand XXX,
would you be thinking hard about a Rambouillet or Homer or whatever the
current floor model is?

It is hard to be a Riv, IME.

Patrick "love the one you're with" Moore

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