That makes a lot more sense. I might be reading too much into the Rivendell "Philosophy" but my guess is that from the way that Grant seems interested in giving back, he probably pays a little more than the average for the bicycle industry? Yes, looking through the photos of the staff bikes at Rivendell, much of the bikes as an instrument for use is demonstrated. All look well used and very practical. Nothing overly fancy either.
The topic of "Employees Bikes" is a good one though. I'm fascinated with the bikes that bike shop employees generally ride. I worked at a shop for nearly 15 years when one day I realized that none of the employees working at the shop were riding any of the bikes that were being sold at the shop. (That's when I decided to move on too...) Most were either customer donations, resurectios, or Surly and chances are they were all singlespeed. The well seasoned staff seems to look at the parts as just something that makes the bike work. As for the original post, there would appear to be 3 Surly's, the seemingly bike-shop employee standard... inexpensive, mostly practical, and readily available. The other looks like an older (quill stem) Bianchi in their signature color. I like Moots a lot, but beyond my willingness to part with the dollars. Chances are that at a suggested retail price of $3200 for the YBB frame (in photo,) a Moots is well beyond the range of most people. For the same amount of money, I'd order another custom Rivendell extra fancy and get a beautiful lugged fork too! On Jun 24, 8:12 pm, Bruce <fullylug...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Karl & Dave: > > Don't know if it got lost in translation, but my thinking was that the Riv > shop would have more rivs in it than the Moots shop had Moots bikes (just 1.) > > Was that poorly communicated? Sorry > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
