I was a hardcore Tolkein fan from an early age, read everything I could get my hands on, (Farmer Giles of Ham?) and I have to confess that when I first encountered RBW, I didn't make the connection. I was looking on the Waterford website (because a friend had a Gunnar in a nice color-of-the-month, and it was steel; but was looking for something with more than one purpose, and lacked the spandex). So on Waterford there was a link to RBW, one of only a few links, and when I clicked on it, there was the shot of a cyclist on a trail with a wee baggins on mark's rack on the front, approaching a small creek, and . . . it was as if somebody had made a parody of my ideal cycling shot. For a split second, I did feel as if someone was mocking me. It was just too accurate.
The bike was spot on, but I think some percentage of it was also probably the bag. I have always had a fondness for the c.c. filson company and the canvas and the wool. When I finally noticed the Tolkein, I laughed out loud, partly at the confluence of interests, partly at my mental indolence. I like the previously suggested "murder of" but would assign it to bombadils. Collectively, I don't mind gaggle. (Not so) Specifically, it should be a rake of ... (romulus, redwood, road, rambouillet, even rivendells) something alliterative. Rick. On Feb 2, 1:53 pm, Bill Gibson <bill.bgib...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh yeah! Sorry; it must be "middle age"... > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Bill Gibson <bill.bgib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > But I followed him online > >> for awhile; no examples of the Rivendell bikes were available to me > >> until I saw one at a Seattle Bike Show in 1987? 1988? 1989? > > > I think you must mean 1997, or 1998. > > > -sv > > -- > Bill Gibson > Tempe, Arizona, USA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
