Thank you! I was just about to write, "What, no Bleriot!?! Really, no Bleriot?"
+1 for the Bleriot. Atlantis, Redwood, and Hunq are nice too... but, they're no Bleriot. Well, maybe the Atlantis is. :-) Every time I see the Atlantis I think of the the boat designer George Buehler. He tells the story of one disgruntled wife calling him a dream merchant. Meaning, he was selling expensive pipe dreams, as few of his plans were going to be seen through to completion and fewer still were going to do any "epic" cruising for which they were designed (I'm sure some of the same is true of the bike). His response was that it wasn't his job to pre-qualify his customers and beyond that, there's a lot worse things in the world than selling boat plans with a less than even odds that their owner does with them as originally intended. He then goes on to write about dreams being a necessary and healthy part of the human condition. I guess the accusation resonated enough that he wrote a compelling and memorable defense. Well, compelling and memorable to me. :-) Regards, -Allan On Monday, August 13, 2012 3:42:54 PM UTC-7, Joe Bernard wrote: > > Bleriot! I love the biplane, and the spear through the downtube decal. The > name is cool, too. > > Joe Bernard > Vallejo, CA. > > On Monday, August 13, 2012 2:57:05 PM UTC-7, Leslie wrote: > >> The Bombadil, I think, is my favorite, but the Rivendell standard for >> customs is right up there w/ it. I love my Ram as a bike, but it's the >> bike's qualities, and color, that caught my heart; and not it's head badge >> nor name. It's fine as a name, it's a fine badge, but not my faves... > > -- 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/-/DFspelY8BkMJ. 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.
