Since I've been following Rivendell (bought my first in '04), their catalogs and Readers and website have featured many pictures of people riding bicycles offroad. That actually goes back to Bstone, come to think of it... Offroad bicycling has been quietly popular for 100+ years, though it's only been heavily marketed as a separate product for 25-30 years. It isn't terribly new, weird, or extreme (unless you want it to be). All Riv's bikes are road-worthy, and most do well on trails, too. Riv has had All-Rounders and even a few MTBs since the beginning.
Why is Riv's interest in riding off-road suddenly such a problem? They do still make road bikes, after all. Why the harshness? On Jan 22, 7:05 pm, james black <chocot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 17:00, Brad Gantt <brdg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Perhaps you could explain how Rivendell has drifted away from the > > ideals stated below. There is nothing road-ish of off-road-ish about > > them. Rivendell has always been a personal expression of "velosophy" > > for Grant which is full of contradictions, idiosyncrasies, quirks and > > all of the qualities you stated below. That is what drew me to > > Rivendell and that is what makes me so happy to own one. > > Rivendell is wonderfully idiosyncratic, and that's one of the things > we all love about them, right? (I wouldn't think anybody hostile to > idiosyncrasy would even be on this list) > > Rivendell's emphases, styles, and identity have, however, shifted > markedly over the last decade and a half. It makes sense that each of > us like some of those changes and dislike others. > > James Black -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
