I fully support the things that Surly is doing. I even looked at an XXL Ogre Disc the other day. I've never seen a frame with so many fork eyelets, and eyelets in general. Can run 29x2.3 or 700Cx40-something with fenders. Very versatile. No, not as attractive as a Rivendell, and probably doesn't ride as good, but if I needed a vehicle to ride on a 3000 mile tour and I needed it ASAP, the XXL Ogre would be hard to argue with. MSRP is $1700 complete but my shop said they could sell it to me for $1500.
Even if I had the time to wait for it, I don't think I could justify replacing my custom Rivendell with another custom Rivendell should I ever have a need to do so. $3500 is a lot of bones. Maybe a 71AHH, but even that might be a stretch when there are many other nice steel frames in the marketplace. It would be hard to talk me out of a Boulder All Road custom - tigged for $1685 or lugged for $1995. A 64cm Sam Hillborne might have been my first choice but now that is going out of production. :( No matter though, I am happy with the 2 Rivendells that I now own and hopefully won't have a need to replace them anytime soon. On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Ron Mc <bulldog...@gmail.com> wrote: > Exactly. Garth beat me to it. Remember Not Ready for Primetime Players? > In a way, Surly is Not Ready for Rivendell. It's tough to justify a $3000 > bike. Surly is in a good place in the market. The MegaBikeShops all carry > Surly, so it's good see them as a serious steel bike entry in the throwaway > mass market. Not belittling the bike as much as our economy. Grant builds > an instant classic, by design, even by making every model a limited edition. > Every Rivendell will always be great. > > > On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 6:47:34 AM UTC-5, Garth wrote: >> >> Imitation is the greatest form of flattery > > -- > 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.
