[RBW] sad e-mail from Renaissance

2010-12-15 Thread doug peterson
Renaissance Bicycles is the latest victim of the Great Recession. On their blog, they announced they are closing shop. Special thanks for support went to Rivendell. dougP -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this

Re: [RBW] sad e-mail from Renaissance

2010-12-15 Thread Rob Harrison
That *is* sad. Not anywhere near my LBS (being as how I'm in Seattle...), but I really enjoyed their approach, and spent a lot of time looking at photos on their site. As Bob Freeman at Elliot Bay Bicycles said to me years ago, If you buy from catalogs (this was before there was an online)

Re: [RBW] sad e-mail from Renaissance

2010-12-15 Thread PATRICK MOORE
I don't have any particular loyalty to local; the only reason I like local as such is convenience, when in fact that exists -- for example, remove my chain to clean it and find it stretched beyond acceptable limits, and I want a chain *now*. Apart from that, my criteria for bike store selection

Re: [RBW] sad e-mail from Renaissance

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 15:00 -0700, PATRICK MOORE wrote: I don't have any particular loyalty to local; the only reason I like local as such is convenience, when in fact that exists -- for example, remove my chain to clean it and find it stretched beyond acceptable limits, and I want a chain

Re: [RBW] sad e-mail from Renaissance

2010-12-15 Thread PATRICK MOORE
You are right, and if cash were free-er just now that is what I'd do. Right now, having mistakenly bought three new chains for the Fargo that are too wide (#1 a SRAM ss chain whose label I did not read; the other two cheap KMC chains that were sold me as 3/32 but must be 1/8) I have a stash for