Certainly both Riv and VO try to find their own niches in this small part of the cycling business, but I find a lot of commonality between the two. I think Grant seems to favor the tried and true proven stuff while VO seems to like to experiment with new versions using cheaper Taiwanese mfgers
~Mike On Feb 4, 5:55 am, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > > Jitensha is actually pre-Rivendell, so if anything, Rivendell is a "Me > > too Jitensha". :) > > Grant wrote somewhere that he used to hang out at Jitensha, and that > > was where he knew "Pineapple Bob" of the Bridgestone catalog fame. > > That is my understanding. > > The BOBs may have to chime in here, but I always thought Bridgestone > in the Grant years was trying to translate at scale what the small, > Francophile Japanese shops (such as Toei) Jitensha championed were > doing. > > On Feb 3, 8:55 pm, benzzoy <benz...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > On Feb 3, 1:08 pm, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > > > > Jitensha should not be included in a list of me too Riv companies. > > > > Jitensha has been around for quite some time, possibly longer than > > > Riv, though I am not certain on that. > > > Jitensha is actually pre-Rivendell, so if anything, Rivendell is a "Me > > too Jitensha". :) > > > Grant wrote somewhere that he used to hang out at Jitensha, and that > > was where he knew "Pineapple Bob" of the Bridgestone catalog fame. > > > -B- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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-bunch@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.
