"Yes" to "... buy one Rivendell and then keep riding it for20 years ..." and "No" to "never to be bothered to get another one."
My favorite bike of all time is my 1999 Joe Starck custom Riv Road, but I've bought and sold on 4 other Rivs as I found other bikes better suited to my admittedly idiosyncratic taste. BUT!! These other replacements have all been refined by what I learned from riding those 4 Rivs that I sold on; the most recent being that 2003 Curt Goodrich; I loved it, rode it, discovered a flaw*, and replaced it, the outstanding replacement standing on the shoulder of that previous giant. * I think I've never experienced "planing," but I finally realize I've experienced its opposite: The 2003 just didn't go like the 1999; come to an incline, turn into a headwind, and it got sluggish, didn't respond properly to higher exertion, and hurt my quads. Excessively thick-walled OS tubing? Again, 7 lb F + F + Ultegra alloy HS for a 58 c-c, where my 60 c-c Libertas weighs 5.9 F + F + STEEL (old Campy Record) HS. At any rate, the replacement, with thinwall standard tubing just seems more eager. On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 3:39 PM Ryan M. <ryan.merrill.cycl...@gmail.com> wrote: > ...I wonder how many people just buy one Rivendell and then keep riding it > for 20 years never to be bothered to get another one. I am not one of those > people. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgvD9mhxLjjy1U3oizr%3D%3DM-ALd26aN0qq0Vi%3Ds1HqY%2BcYA%40mail.gmail.com.
