Awesome post redsydude I have a bike that I paid like $160 for off of Ebay and probably wasn't worth even that, an old early 80s gas pipe Nishiki. It's what I use when I need to ride somewhere and lock up a bike. I keep thinking I will make some improvements, but then looking at the frame, it's not really worth it. So I just fix what breaks or falls off (literally, I have had parts fall off, like for example the interruptor brake levers) with the cheapest replacement parts available. I taco-ed the original front wheel making a slow left hand turn and replaced it with a $37 front wheel with the roughest bearings I have ever felt. It works well enough.
My Rivendell is what I ride everywhere else. It will never be tamed by a lock. You can't compare it to a pos $200 craigslist bike. It just brings me way more joy than that. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:57 AM, redsydude <thaus...@q.com> wrote: > I have no advice but here is an anode to your cathode. My whole life I've > been a $200 bike person. Last year I owned four of them and I was sick of > the clutter so I gathered together one groupset of the best parts, sold or > gave away everything else and bought a new Sam Hillborne frameset. I > figure I have 10x$200 in it and consider it a bargain. I split my time > between two cities so I'm back on craigslist looking for another $200 bike. > When I think about the whole craigslist transaction hassle and the time and > money to get the bike running OK, $200 bikes now seem outrageously > overpriced to me. > > > On Thursday, March 20, 2014 7:33:29 AM UTC-7, Emily Hutchinson wrote: > >> Hello, >> I am trying to talk myself into or out of a really pretty new Atlantis >> with all it's parts. It would be the smaller frame because I'm short and >> average weight 130. The price tag is somewhere around 4000 all said and >> done and I feel stuck. My gut is pushing me in both directions because I've >> never ridden an Atlantis. I'm also out of country and can't just go find >> one to try. I love touring and I'd love to do some long international and >> national tours and live in Colorado with hills. Okay thanks.Someone help >> tip me! Is it irresponsible to spend this much money? >> > -- > 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
