I always enjoy this thread. The one thing I’ve noticed is that is really hard for bike nerds, especially those who appreciate the Riv aesthetic, to avoid turning even the beaterist of beaters into some version of eye candy. Even my son rides a clean 90’s Rockhopper to school, I tried putting him on a super ugly lower end bike and he couldn’t get into it. “Rides terribly,” he said, and he’s not into bikes. He’s just had the luxury of experiencing nicer bikes. So I invested in Pitlocks all around, and a good U-Lock, and hope that’s deterrent enough to move on, in the High School bike rack at least. *not that I want any kids’ bikes stolen, Pitlocks or no*
> On Sep 6, 2021, at 07:35, Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Toshi...I devoutly hope so too, for your sake. But your lovely Cheviot is > tempting eye-candy. > > I'm going back to a downtown university tomorrow...I'm a retired student > studying linguistics and I have one evening class on Mondays. My 2 non-rivs > are a 70's PX-10 set up as a single speed which is mechanically perfect but > deliberately grubby-looking and a 1993 X0-1. Much as I'd like the convenience > of riding my bike to school, leaving it locked up for 3 hours stresses me > out...so I'll walk to class and bus home. Bike theft is always a problem > downtown and the pandemic has kind of exacerbated the situation. > >> On Sunday, September 5, 2021 at 6:58:06 PM UTC-5 ttoshi wrote: >> I'm hoping my beautiful Cheviot is not beautiful to would-be robbers. >> >> Toshi >> > > -- > 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/3bc34933-2e10-4a58-814a-2ea23a394068n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/AAB1F978-B365-4732-94D7-DC3BCE904F00%40gmail.com.
