I was there, mostly to go for the ride after which I ended up not going on, go figure.
I've read another of his books but not really his blogs so wasn't too familiar with him. His presentation thing was fine, pretty funny. The Q&A I thought was weird, the questions kind of put Eben in a weird position of being bike ambassador of the world, and he really just didn't know how to answer the questions (which I don't blame him at all), but still had a good sense of humor about it. He riffed on track bikes, triathalon bikes, and fat bikes a good bit. The book itself is nothing special, its an intro buyer's guide to bikes. After drinking the Rivendell kool-aid over the years I felt it didn't have much more to offer and was missing the philosophic musings in Gran's riding. That being said, I'm glad I went and paid the $20 for the book because I wanted to support the community and encourage the message. Grant gave a pretty funny intro of being pulled over and given a ticket for running a stoplight (which he did in fact do), and then he went to contest in court in which he convinced the judge to 'think about it' for a few days. He just got the letter from the court and had an audience member open it and let him know what the decision was. I won't ruin this surprise ending, you'll have to call rivendell and ask to find out the verdict ;) On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 7:05:20 PM UTC-7, Joe Bernard wrote: > > Am I really the only Riv Lister who went to this thing? There were a lot > of not-Riv bikes on the ride, so maybe it was mostly Bike Snob people. > Interesting. -- 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.
