I'll flip my bike over any day and twice on Sunday. I just put something under the saddle so it doesn't get scratched up.
That being said, many times on brevets someone just holds it while you change the tire, I have done that recently for a fellow Rivendell owner as well. On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Joe Bernard <joerem...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it's safe to say bike-flipping for the average owner of a > pretty-nice-bike is not a viable option. The folks at Riv have an almost > militant disinterest in caring about scratches and whatnot on their > beautiful bicycles, but dropping a nice saddle/grips/tape/levers/bars on the > ground would...well, I just don't think I could talk myself into it. > > Joe Bernard > Vallejo, CA. > > > On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 7:39:10 AM UTC-8, EGNolan wrote: >> >> I haven't changed a flat of my own for a while...knock on the wood, but >> when in the city (the bulk of my rides) I use a kickstand + pedal on the >> curb combo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ericgnolan/8053813850/ >> >> Best, >> Eric >> >> On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 5:49:03 PM UTC-5, lungimsam wrote: >>> >>> Scratches your leather saddle to turn the bike upside down. >>> >>> In light of the Blog post about this, I figured I would ask you leather >>> users how you prevent the scratching from happening. Any convenient ideas? >>> >>> > -- > 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.
