On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Mike <mjawn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like some nice bikes at the show. Thanks for posting the link. > It's funny, living here in Portland you'd think you'd see more MAPs, > Ira Ryan's, Vanilla's, etc around town but it's pretty rare and often > when I do it's Mitch or Ira riding one of their bikes. Probably if I > went to cross races I'd see more. By and large the majority of bikes I > see on the road by commuters are Surlys. Racer types always seem to be > on some variation of a plastic bike by Trek, Specialized, Cervelo, > etc. I feel like I see more people on Rivendells than custom bikes by > local builders. >
Why is that surprising? Percentage-wise the custom-made bikes are a small amount of the total. you see more surly's than riv's more riv's than custom builders. I suspect you see more nike shoes than danskos and more danksos than hand made boots. -sv -- 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.