The Atlantis won't go away forever and never for long and maybe not at all, and redundancy has been our calling card and anchor all along...because Rivendell bikes are all good for more than one thing. How is a good commute bike different than a good touring bike? You might have historical highbrow imagery of "classical touring bikes," but the bikes have the same requirements--strong wheels, a place to put a tent or milk, good handling with a load, and a comfortable position. You're more likely to pedal four hours (works both ways) on a tour than shopping, but isn't it then funny that most shopping bikes are more comfortable than most "classic" touring bikes, which tend to look better than they feel?
There couldn't be more two overlapped bikes than the Atlantis and Appaloosa--as, like, platforms and performance and feel and all. Our direction has shifted only slightly, world-record slightly, in our history. The bars have come up a hair and the chainstays are inching longer and there's less reverence for the past and certain associations with properness and style than there used to be. I (personally, as opposed to all of RBW) have grown more haywire and feel less apart of the main bike industry than ever before, because (I think) I am I'm slightly suffering from being on a private high horse when it comes to questioning the motives of why this or that is happening, and not liking the answers. The bike MARKET is super crowded, and it leads to dozens of categoris and abberants and variety...and on one hand it's cool that bikes really can travel motorlessly over more terrain--that's one of the good things, although I'm not talking about eFat bikes penetrating the wilderness when i say "good"--but it also leads to overspecialization with too many categories, and then new riders go shopping and ask for bikes by category and not by this is how I'm gonna use it. Am I off track here? What am I even addressing? Oh--Atlantis and Appaloosa. If the Appaloosa had Atlantis decals it wouldn't seem like a different bike. Longer stays is the big difference. There's not a quality difference, and they both ride well. The comparisons are inevitable and so I tried to address them, but the existence of the Appa doesn't make the Atlantis less or obsolete. Redundant for sure, but we have a lot of redundancy in our line. It's better than having less of it and a bunch of good-for-one-thing bikes, right? On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 8:07:18 PM UTC-8, Reid wrote: > > Just read the latest Blug that goes on about the Appaloosa. Seems to make > the case that the Appaloosa is better for touring in many cases than the > Atlantis, and better for a wider variety of terrain. So why retain the > Atlantis? > > Reid > > -- 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.
