Well put and accurate! -- as I can verify from inveterate personal experience.
Patrick "now I want ..." Moore On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Michael Hechmer <[email protected]> wrote: > Two contradictory pieces of learned wisdom about this. > First, the ego wants wanting more than it wants having. So, as soon as we > satisfy a want, the ego move on to wanting something else. If that weren't > true our consumer driven economy would pretty much collapse. Three months > after getting a new Riv road bike the owner will read in fantastic custom > bike review in Bicycle Quarterly and the ego will start wanting again. Some > people get swept away and some hang onto reality. > Second, virtually all product lines exist along a price / performance line, > and somewhere that line has a sharp bend in it. Up to that curve additional > spending yields significant advantages, after the curve the buyer has to > spend increasingly large amounts of money to get less and less advantage > (except perhaps to the irrational ego). For example, reducing the weight of > a bike from 27 to 26 lbs without sacrificing strength cost very little, but > reducing it from 17 to 16 lbs. will cost quite a bit more. > Rivendell bikes are pretty much positioned near the top of the break on the > bicycle frame cost - performance curve. Unless you have some special need, > like an unusual body shape or unique high milage application it doesn't make > a lot of sense to move up the curve on a new frame. But that is not > universally true for all the other parts. Many of the components Riv > supplies as stock are good parts with good cost - performance trade offs but > are still closer to the bottom of the break in that curve. So the buyer > would be much wiser to gradually upgrade components - hubs & rims, cranks > and brakes. Over the years I have upgraded my stock Rambouillet - White > hubs, Open Pro rims, White VBC crank, Paul's Racer M brakes. The bike is > now lighter, stronger, more responsive, and much easier to maintain. > Now all I have left to do is ride the bike and control my ego. > Michael, > take care of Self; it's one of a kind and irreplaceable > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/TJt_bvKBK74J. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW [email protected] A billion stars go spinning through the night Blazing high above your head; But in you is the Presence that will be When all the stars are dead. (Rilke, Buddha in Glory) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
