Re: [RBW] Review of "Just Ride."

[James Warren]

Grant writes a book to promote something to counteract a prevailing mentality. The reviewer's review itself has one sentence that shows how pervasive that mentality is. The reviewer generally responds positively to Grant's book and offers the following as constructive criticism: mentioning a couple of Grant's points with which he disagrees, the reviewer writes, "I also think the notion of a 31-pound “performance” road bike (that’s how much his personal bike weighs) is ridiculous."

 

This tells me that the reviewer has not really gotten the point. I know the word "performance" is in quotes, so I'm not sure how he is defining performance. But the phrase "road bike" is not in quotes. The reviewer adheres to the idea that one's road ride can be only be high-performance when lightness and acceleration are the highest goals. Elsewhere in the article, the reviewer says that cycling should be much more. But he himself can't allow the thing called "road riding" to incorporate cycling's other joys. That's a bummer.

 

-Jim W.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Frederick
Sent: Jun 28, 2012 4:38 AM
To: "rbw-owners-bun."
Subject: [RBW] Review of "Just Ride."

From none other than BIKE magazine, one of the best mtb mags. out there...

http://www.bikemag.com/news/reviewed-just-ride/

Steve

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