I agree with Reed on this, can't say I wouldn't own a Hunq if it was called a Jim Clement, but I wouldn't feel so badass saying I own a Jim Clement as I would a Hunqapillar (which maybe others can't stand that name either?). The name shouldn't matter by any means, but it does for a lot of people. A lot of us get drawn in to rivendell partly because of the bike geometry and philosophy, but a large part of that is the initial aesthetics: paint colors, paint type, lugs, head badges (plus all the cool baskets and bags and handlebars Riv sells). You can't judge a book by its cover, but most of do anyway.
Clem Smith Jr still has a nice ring to it. Clem isn't a super common name (reminds me of a Nashville band called Clem Snide) and the Jr. adds a little mystery behind the family name. A Homer Hilsen sounds like a baseball player (which makes total sense when you hear the story behind it). Frank Jones Sr sounds like an insurance salesman who named his kid after him with high hopes he'd be a star athlete on the college football team playing for his dad's alma mater, but is probably disappointed that Frank Jones Jr is more into playing world of warcraft and going to school for computer science (probably dating myself on the WoW thing, and nothing against college football team, wow, or computer science). On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 3:21:33 PM UTC-7, Reed Kennedy wrote: > > I hate to say it (and had in fact been keeping it to myself) but if my > Hunqapillar had been named Jim Clement (or something of the ilk) I probably > wouldn't own it. > > These particular people names strike me as the least fun of all worlds. > They're just so... Normal. Heck, I'd rather have a bike named Allez! > > OTOH, Appaloosa? That's a great bike name! > > > Reed > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Eric <ericwo...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> First Clem and now Frank Jones, Jr. >> >> Am I the only one not loving these names? >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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.
