Well, that kinda gives some credence to the idea that the builders may have run out of one type and just switched to a different one...IOW, they just used what they had in stock. But, as Doug says, only Grant would know for sure. Hmmm....come to think of it, didn't there used to be an old TV commercial for hair coloring that had the phrase, "...only her hairdresser knows for sure"?
On Friday, April 8, 2022 at 10:59:17 AM UTC-5 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > George, yes, but the mermaid Platys are from the same run of frames. I > could understand if my raspberry biked used a different shell(it was a > sample), but those mermaid bikes ought to be the same, right? Unless there > is a size consideration? But then again, both of my bikes are 55s, so if > size was the issue they should both have the same shell. I wrote to one > RivSister; she has the simple, sleek shell. I think she rides a 50. > > On Apr 8, 2022, at 9:32 AM, George Schick <bhi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Guessing a bit here, but it seems as though the builders of Rivendell's > production frames "use whatever's available." I have one of those orange > Rambouillet's that was probably built in '02 or '03. The rear dropouts > are completely different than the ones built in later years. > > > > On Friday, April 8, 2022 at 8:06:26 AM UTC-5 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! > wrote: > >> I stumbled upon something very interesting. I was taking my mermaid >> Platypus out for a ride and I happened to notice what I thought was a large >> drop of water on the bottom bracket lug. It wasn’t - it’s a cut-out. It >> looked so foreign to me, so I looked at my raspberry Platypus. >> >> Totally different lugs. >> >> My raspberry is a sample bike. It made sense to me that it might have a >> different, simpler lug. But then I started looking on Instagram. Now, who >> takes photos of the bottom bracket lug (is that the name for it? I don’t >> know.)? Almost no one. But I found a mermaid Platy on Blue Lug’s account >> and it has the same lug as my raspberry bike. So, it is not because my bike >> is a sample. It seems some Platys went out with the cut-out lug, and some >> went out with the plain lug. I’ll attach photos in the following post… >> >> Which lug does your Platypus have? Why do you think they built the bikes >> this way? >> Leah >> > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/8TWU_GhesFg/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a0823e1d-ae66-4d43-8833-c6573b3613abn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a0823e1d-ae66-4d43-8833-c6573b3613abn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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/38bb69e3-64ff-4dd6-8d7e-a6f1ac186c55n%40googlegroups.com.
