[RBW] Heterodoxy — reconciling RBW with the mainstream

[Jay Lonner]

My wife and I are spending a week in northern AZ, which included a day of 
mountain biking in Sedona. We rented fancy dual-suspension, carbon fiber 
wonderbikes which are about as anti-Riv as you can get — and it was a 
fantastic experience! I’ve never ridden such a beast before, and was amazed 
at the terrain it could handle in the hands of a newcomer to this style of 
riding. It’s the most fun I’ve had on a bike in years.

I had a Gus in my shopping cart when they were last on sale, but ultimately 
didn’t go through with the purchase because I want to be free to experiment 
with builds that depart from the Riv way of doing things, such as IGHs and 
disc brakes. And now I’m doubly glad I held off, because I am giving 
serious consideration to buying a fully modern mountain bike.

In retrospect I think I gave too much credence to the idea of underbiking. 
There’s no way I could have handled this sort of terrain on a Riv-style 
bike — I would have been walking it the entire time. And while that may be 
the lowest common gear, as a former commenter here liked to say, it 
wouldn’t have been nearly as fun.

So I guess this is part confession and part query — who else mixes and 
matches their Rivendells with the sort of modern ironmongery that would 
give Grant & Co. conniptions? 

Jay Lonner
Bellingham, WA (but temporarily in Sedona, AZ)

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Re: [RBW] Heterodoxy — reconciling RBW with the mainstream

[Mike Davis]

My mountain bike is a Yokata El Capitan built in 1990/1991. It is steel,
has a switchblade front fork and hard tail. It has ridden and works pretty
well for alot of technical riding. It works well to commute to work. It can
take racks, panniers, and fenders. It is 31/32 years old.

I'm not seeing many carbon fibre bikes from that time that can take
fenders, racks and panniers. I see quite a few on walls though.

My point is that my riding time, such as it is, is not spent trying to make
jumps or travel terrain far more suitable for walking than biking. That
bike cost $600 in 1990. That's about $1200 today and it still works.
Granted it has been maintained. Wheels, chains, cassettes and cranks have
been replaced. But it keeps going like a timex.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 8:49 PM Jay Lonner  wrote:

> My wife and I are spending a week in northern AZ, which included a day of
> mountain biking in Sedona. We rented fancy dual-suspension, carbon fiber
> wonderbikes which are about as anti-Riv as you can get — and it was a
> fantastic experience! I’ve never ridden such a beast before, and was amazed
> at the terrain it could handle in the hands of a newcomer to this style of
> riding. It’s the most fun I’ve had on a bike in years.
>
> I had a Gus in my shopping cart when they were last on sale, but
> ultimately didn’t go through with the purchase because I want to be free to
> experiment with builds that depart from the Riv way of doing things, such
> as IGHs and disc brakes. And now I’m doubly glad I held off, because I am
> giving serious consideration to buying a fully modern mountain bike.
>
> In retrospect I think I gave too much credence to the idea of underbiking.
> There’s no way I could have handled this sort of terrain on a Riv-style
> bike — I would have been walking it the entire time. And while that may be
> the lowest common gear, as a former commenter here liked to say, it
> wouldn’t have been nearly as fun.
>
> So I guess this is part confession and part query — who else mixes and
> matches their Rivendells with the sort of modern ironmongery that would
> give Grant & Co. conniptions?
>
> Jay Lonner
> Bellingham, WA (but temporarily in Sedona, AZ)
>
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