After over 7 years of following Rivendel, and spending countless hours on this site, and any other that is even remotely related to Riv and Rivish biking culture, I finally found myself in a position last month to purchase my first true Riv (no offense meant to Marco the San Marcos). One morning while drinking my coffee before work, I stumbled upon a new post of a Local Joe Appaloosa--in my size--in my favorite Joe color--and at a fair price! So, after a couple days of worrying about my wife killing me, I went ahead and made the plunge! AJ (short for Appaloosa Joe, which sounds to me like a GREAT cowboy name!) somehow manages to take smoothness of the San Marcos, and make it even smoother. Standing next to each other you can see how much longer AJ is!
<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9i_ha78JbkA/XOShewDmTrI/AAAAAAAAATM/ViVWErzGJH051qQGAHwdc3mRKr96zBxCACL4CGAYYCw/s1600/AJ%2Band%2BMarco.jpg> After the purchase I sadly had to Sell Marco. He went on quiet a journey however and landed with another Group member all the way in Spokane Washington! Shortly after the purchase I had to travel for a while so AJ and I are still getting aquainted, we have been on several 3-5 mile rides around the neighborhood with the family, but over the weekend I finally took him out to stretch his legs...or chainstays....or wheels maybe? Anyway, it was a perfect evening, and a perfect ride. I really enjoy how AJ makes me relax my pace and enjoy the scenery and the sensation of using one of mankinds greatest inventions. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MoTQljEX_ec/XOShe3A_MdI/AAAAAAAAATM/R5ZC_A6LCqU1J9jM9zC9Depeek3fYnhpgCL4CGAYYCw/s1600/AJ%2Bat%2Bthe%2BLake.jpg> I did ride about 5 miles of pretty rough gravel that really had me wanting to get some wider tires on there pronto, but it was worth it to sit by the lake for few minutes. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RnbUg2ffzWc/XOShZVDIuGI/AAAAAAAAATM/8XUl7tG0Too7YBm0B_JMrGqx6gZMevVigCL4CGAYYCw/s1600/AJ%2BBeaver%2BDamn%2BCreek.jpg> Finally as the sun crept through the trees we started heading back home. Hopefully I will have many more adventures to post on here in the coming months! -Nick -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/7ae97baf-944d-46cd-8422-b1df6aedd8c6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
