This post seems to be drifting away without response and I'm reluctant to see that happen, so here goes:
Within the past couple of months I have seen evening news segments containing man-on-the-street interviews of people favoring those older style cell phones that just "flip open" to be answered. I suppose this is no surprise, given the complications involved in "answering" some of the latest "smart phones" or "iPhones" currently on the market. Then, just the other day, I saw a news segment interviewing people who have a renewed interest in run-of-the-mill typewriters (as opposed to software/printer based word processing systems). Enter this current and curious interest in nicely painted, well-equipped steel bike frames and are we on the verge of yet another retro (but practical and efficient) movement back to practical cycling? Only time and popularity will tell. And BTW, Grant featured at least one article in an older RivReader about the benefits of the mechanical typewriter, which makes me wonder if he has not been a prophet all along of the direction that some of these "technological advancements" (including CF) would eventually take. On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 4:52:47 AM UTC-5, Jay LePree wrote: > > Hi all: > I took my Rambouillet in for service to get it ready now that we are > getting a thaw here in Northern NJ. The new owners of the Tenafly Bicycle > Workshop had not seen the bike before. (I had been riding a Redline > Monocog set up for the street.) I brought the bike in and the owners had > the biggest smile on their faces. There were a couple of customers in the > shop and they came over too. Really nice complements on the bike. It is a > slow time in the shop and with the ice on the roads, I told the owners to > that they could take their time as I was riding the Monocog anyway. For > the two weeks it was in the shop, I was told many of their other customers > did a double take when they saw the bike. > > I think that with the increase in carbon fiber performance machines, the > Rivendell models really do stand out, perhaps more than when I purchased > the bike in 2003. They are nice looking machines. I am getting ready to > pull the trigger on another Riv....thinking the Atlantis. It would be a > good pairing, and I like the classic look. > Best, > Jay > Demarest, NJ > -- 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.
