Does anyone have a scan of the You Need 7 Bikes article? Need for a friend. Not me, no spouse, and I'm almost there with two frame/forks hanging on the wall.
Mike SLO CA On Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 9:48:56 AM UTC-7 pi...@gmail.com wrote: > In my garage, I have: > > 1. Custom touring bike > 2. Rivendell Roadini > 3. Airborne Seeker MTB > 4. Co-Motion Tandem/Triplet/Quad Periscope > 5. Wife's Cheviot > 6. Wife's Santa Cruz 5010 MTB > 7. 11-year-old's MTB > 8. 7-year-old's MTB > > For many years I lived with just 1 road bike (the ti custom), but after I > broke 2 of those frames, I've decided having a backup road bike (which is > what the Roadini is) is not a bad idea at all --- I hated 3 months of > riding the MTB around as my only single bike, though it did force me to > find all the interesting off-pavement trails around here. Now the Roadini > is shod with 40mm Terraspeed and gets used as a gravel bike, but if the Ti > frame breaks again I can put nice wheels on it and it'll be a fast road > bike/touring bike again. I will note that the Roadini probably can't be > used long term as a touring bike as the long chainstays probably means > packing it into a case will be a nightmare. > On Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 7:28:58 AM UTC-7 Tom Palmer wrote: > >> Thanks Eric. That is it. I thought it was a longer article. i really >> appreciate the effort. >> >> I guess I need 14, since I have 6 mountain bikes on top of my 7 road and >> dirt road bikes. >> Not up to Mr. Lindsay, as far as curating them all to perfection, but it >> is a goal. >> There was also a thread a while back on listing and justifying your >> bikes, but I could not find that either, but it may have been on iBob. >> >> Thanks for all the interesting responses. >> >> Tom >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 8:16:47 PM UTC-4 eric...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Hi Tom — This appeared as a little blurb in Rivendell Reader No. 42 on >>> page 6 (online in the Rivendell archive here >>> <http://notfine.com/rivendell/RR42.pdf>). >>> >>> [image: Screenshot 2023-03-29 at 8.14.15 PM.png] >>> >>> On Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 8:45:16 AM UTC-4 Tom Palmer wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> I recall an article by Grant about the number of bike a person needs >>>> with justification. I think it was 7. >>>> Any idea which reader it was in? >>>> Thanks! >>>> Tom Palmer >>>> Twin Lake, MI >>>> >>> -- 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/34f25f7d-cc2f-4663-9177-90400a8a376bn%40googlegroups.com.
