Hey Scot, Everything from the paint up is nearly frivolous and unimportant. I mean, the difference. There is beauty in low-brow, and it's hard to talk about it with precision, because there are so many other associations that lead you astray. Even "low-brow," although we all know what you mean. The "beauty" in it is the same kind of beauty there is in a Little League home run compared to a Major League homer. Nobody could say it's any less, and in its own way it's even more. Also, don't discount the "everybody's bike is cooler and rides better than mine" phenomenon. Obviously if the bike doesn't fit or there's something wrong with it, but there is absolutely a tendency to wish you had what you don't. The new Sams are no better than the early ones. Not even by an atom!
On Monday, July 16, 2012 6:20:23 PM UTC-7, Scot Brooks wrote: > > Living through this last weekend's Seattle to Portland bike ride was > pretty great, and there were quite a few Riv spottings along the way. There > was a couple with two...Atlanti, Atlantises...whatever, a couple Rams at > least, and I think I spotted a Bleriot. Non compared to the Sam I saw while > waiting in the UW parking lot for the bike trucks to unload. It was a new > color 56 with double top tubes of course, nitto front and rear racks, Nigel > Smythe front and rear tweed excellence, Brooks of course, Silver shifters, > SON dynohub, Edelux (I believe) light, and the list goes on. It really was > the ultimate expression of a Sam for me. What's worse is that it made mine > look like a wretch. Mine has all the sam SORT of stuff, but just the low > brow versions of...everything. I think the bell was even better. Hopefully > it made it back to its owner, because it was there for at least 2 1/2 hours > while I was waiting, and I left at maybe 11:45pm. -- 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/-/KaOFa67r8QgJ. 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.
