There are lots of similarities between the car industry (and how they appeal to individual tastes) and the bike industry... and it shouldn't surprise us that the type of person who gravitates towards sleek, fast sports cars may also gravitate towards sleek fast sporty bikes, that's all...
I drive a Honda Element. I like utility-focused bikes that can do many things in all kinds of weather on all kinds of terrain... gee, kinda like my car... I'd love to drive someone's Corvette, but I'd never want to own one... same as I'd love to take my friend's Pinarello Dogma around the block and declare "WOW that's so light and so fast"... but I'd never want to own one. To each his own, that's the beauty of having a robust and healthy industry that can appeal to many different tastes. Peace and Love of All Bikes... BB On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 8:26:29 AM UTC-4, Ron Mc wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 8:17:29 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> There's a definite negative attitude on this list toward racers. >> > > no there isn't. > We don't like bike snobs on racing bikes, we don't like an industry that > models itself after cutting-edge racing, and 30-something salespersons > trying to put everybody on a cutting-edge racing bike or a cheap > cookie-cutter facsimile, and pigeonholing everybody else. > > A nice enough guy otherwise looking over my upright at a water stop last > weekend - after our in depth conversation was near over - said, "so you > built yourself a cruiser" > I made a point to pass him and leave him in the dust from my Italian > Huffy. > > Made up for it yesterday on a greenway trail - ran across a fellow Grant > Kool-Aid imbiber, who was riding a really nice upright built on a Miyata > Triple Cross.and we shared a great stop > -- 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.
