Although I, too, wish I had known about all this earlier, I understand why Riv might not want to advertise it. I work at a small business -- not bike related -- and fairly often a customer will ask, "Why don't you still make such-and-such? When is it coming back?" I find this frustrating, because of course we have always made what we think is best. My job doesn't have me speaking to customers directly, but if I did, I would tell them, "That's great you liked the other thing, but we feel this new thing is actually better, and I wish you would give it a chance. We wouldn't have changed it if we didn't believe that."
>From the very start of Rivendell, Grant Petersen's designs have continually evolved. I haven't always agreed with the changes -- like a lot of people here, I prefer shorter chain stays --- but I admire Grant for following his heart instead of market trends. He could have left the Atlantis alone, but I trust that he truly believes the longer chain stay version is better, or, at least, an experiment worth trying. He sounds super excited about the new bikes, the Gus, etc, and although I may not want one of those, I don't doubt for a second that he is designing the best bikes he can, within certain unavoidable financial constraints. To put it another way, the production frames are Rivendells's main source of money, the distillation of their current state of mind, really the whole reason for the company to exist, so I can see why they would want to put the spotlight there and not on past models. On Friday, January 24, 2020 at 1:34:32 AM UTC-8, Roberta wrote: > > I wonder why they don't advertise that, but keep it a secret. Perhaps put > at the bottom of their bike page, next to "Custom", "Previous production > frames." Then send out an email blast. > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/77540ada-ee49-49c9-a430-cfaaca7c79a8%40googlegroups.com.
