on 7/13/10 11:43 AM, Rob Harrison at robha...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I am, no wait, I _am_ naive and gullible, but it feels to me like the guy who's selling the bike has no idea it may not be a Rivendell. Probably because the person who sold it to him told him it was a Rivendell. Or maybe the owner before that. Looking at it, I sure don't know enough about lug styles or allowable paint jobs to determine it was a fake. You'd have to be way into the history and lore to have that knowledge, and my guess is that that level of knowledge and enthusiasm only comes _after_ you own a Rivendell or four.
I do think it's important not to ascribe or imply malicious intent. Few of us are likely to know the seller's backstory, etc. The only thing that was ringing in my brain was something Grant wrote a while back in a Reader (and I think it was echoed a few times in various Catalogs, etc., but I'm at work and don't have time to dig through them right now) where he said something along the lines that he wanted to build bikes that could be missing paint, decals and show years of use, but someone would be able to recognize them as a Rivendell. It definitely seemed like it was, at best, an outlier in that spectrum. It's been interesting to hear more of the facts now. - Jim -- Jim Edgar cyclofi...@earthlink.net ³Velvet pillows, safari parks, sunglasses: people have become woolly mice. They still have bodies that can walk for five days and four nights through a desert of snow, without food, but they accept praise for having taken a one-hour bicycle ride.² - Tim Krabbe, "The Rider" Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com Current Classics - Cross Bikes Singlespeed - Working Bikes Send In Your Photos! - Here's how: http://www.cyclofiend.com/guidelines -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
