Thanks for the photos Michael. I wasn't able to put any names to faces (and bikes) like I'd somewhat hoped, but that's cool too. Kind of maintains the mystery. :-)
The talk was pretty interesting, but only after giving it a day. At first I was a little disappointed that it seemed more aimed at Oprah's book club, while I was hoping more for a sermon to the choir... yeah, I know the book isn't so much aimed at the choir, but anyone going to hear an author talk on one of the nicest Saturday's Portland has had this year is I think safe to assume part of the choir. Or at least knows Grant, knows Rivendell, and knows the virtues of steel, leather, & cork. Maybe that can't be said for everywhere, but in Portland, I don't think it a stretch. The one thing I'll say is that it surprised me that Grant hasn't always been the "unracer" he is today. He has been as long as I've known of him, about 2005 or so, but that was a relatively recent conversion of his. Since I was already more or less an "unracer" when I discovered him, I always thought of him as an "unracer" and appreciated it that here was a guy sympatico with myself, and a lot more knowledgeable about it. So after thinking about it, and realizing that it took Grant 20-some-odd-years to become an unracer, there probably are a lot of people out there needing to unrace themselves, and probably even a few on this list. Regards, -Allan On Saturday, May 12, 2012 7:26:49 PM UTC-7, velomann wrote: > > I shot some not very good photos. Grant spoke at Powells and said he was > deviating from his standard spiel. It was good - funny in a dry way, > opinionated, natch. Talked a lot about un-racing, and how he spent a lot of > years riding a lot of miles, most of them thinking mostly about getting to > the end, and how that's no way to ride - or live. And then we rode to > Velocult, which is about the perfect place to end a ride like that. Beers, > lots of chatting, the biggest collection of Rivendell bikes I've seen in > one place in Portland, and a lot of nice Bridgestones as well. Got a big > smile for my '85 MB-2. > https://picasaweb.google.com/116897251123335733984/GrantPetersenPDX5122012 > > -- > Michael Mann > http://baiku-velomann.blogspot.com/ > > -- 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/-/jLbH6JaCPlIJ. 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.
