I get the "How old is that bike?" question occasionally, but much more often I get the "Wow, what a nice bike!" exclamation for both of my Rivs, and from a surprising variety of exclaimers -- experienced riders but also ordinary citizens. The Rivs are 18 and 14 years old respectively, but I don't consider them any older in a functional sense or even aesthetic sense than my 2016 Matthews.
If old means "worn out," then any bike that has been ridden until worn out is old. If old means outdated as to performance, then I'd say you have to go back at least to the mid '80s because of clipless pedals and aero levers and cassettes and slant parallelogram derailleurs; at least, that's when they became common. I believe that these inventions were real benefits to cycling. If "old" means simply "around many years," then any date is rather arbitrary, no? Or at best, simply relative to something that came earlier. New College, Oxford was founded in 1379, New College, Florida in 1960. On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 4:31 PM, iamkeith <keithhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I dont receive the misinformed "must be old" comments as often as i do the > misinformed "must be heavy and difficult to ride" comments. So really > thinking about this for the first time, it occurs to me that there is > probably a hidden silver lining here. If average joe crook thinks my AR is > just some old relic, they might be more inclined to pass it up for the > plastic bike chained next to it. > > -- > 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. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- 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.
