It was 1996 and we bought our first Apple computer and got an internet connection. I had finally decided to get back to riding a road bike. I had tried a Trek hybrid but wanted more. I went online, a new thing for me and found a bicycle site. I posted about my bad back and desire for a road bike. Douglas Brooks replied steering me to Rivendell. I ordered my first Road and took delivery in 1997 and never looked back. The relaxed geometry and the ability to have the bars higher made riding a pleasure once again.
On Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 3:53:10 PM UTC-5 aeroperf wrote: > > I see Laura B’s thread about Susie vs. Platy, and Iconley’s timeline with > 15 Riv bikes, and so I thought I’d ask: > > What made you buy your first Rivendell bicycle? > > Not “What do you like about Rivendell bicycles”, or “Why did you buy a > second one?”, but why did you buy your first? > > > In my case > I wanted steel, because I liked the feel over aluminum (carbon was just > starting). > I wanted lugged steel, because I think I think a lugged steel bike is > awesomely pretty. > I got to ride a friend’s Sam Hillborne in 2010, and it fit like a glove, > and I remembered that. > So when I retired in 2014, I bought a Sam. > > Now I could go on about how I love my Sam, but that’s not the point of > this. It’s to find out why you bought your first. > > Did you Google “Rivendell” one day and stumble into the bicycle shop > instead of the Tolkien book? > Did you want a bicycle that was at home on dirt roads, where the 24mm > tires of a good used 80’s road bike just couldn’t cut it? > Do you think Grant Petersen is a bicycle god, and you’d buy anything that > he designs, once you could afford it? > Are you into the “waxed canvas and square taper” kind of mindset? > Did you get a Riv because it was a boutique bike, or in spite of that? > > Difficulty- no pictures, unless it is of a Riv in a tree with “A guy told > me I could have this for free, if I climbed up and got it”. > -- 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/8a38cce6-53f0-4cf1-aa0e-6478e9a6bb62n%40googlegroups.com.
