I am so guilty of this!! I've got a perfectly good bike (Surly Karate Monkey with Deore groupset) but I still find myself getting excited when I see other bikes and I'm constantly planning my "next build", both in my mind and on BikeCad. I think my problem is that deep down, I want a classic looking bike (ie, not a modern MTB) with silver components (not black, again like modern MTB). Some Riv models come close but there are still issues for me and I think custom is the only way to get what I truly want and at this point I'm not even sure what that is, exactly. Probably a cross between a Bombadil & a Hunqapillar with maybe some Atlantis thrown in.
On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 6:47:53 AM UTC-6, Mark in Beacon wrote: > > some of us become obsessed with creating/finding/buying that Goldilocks > bike, the one that will make us happiest. > > I know I've had my head turned more than once by a new model, and been > well down the road of imagining a build, before reminding myself that I > already have a bicycle (or two!) that does 93-110% of what this fabulous > new one does. My New Year's resolution is to continue to reign in this > lust, and even to let go of a couple of bikes. It's hard, because bikes are > such wonderful machines! But for me, at some point, I cross a line and > having too much can start to work against all the fun and functionality, > even if only in subtle ways. In my heart, I aspire to be one of those who > live with one bicycle. > > >> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
