Nonsense. The Xos were decent bikes but nothing special. I owned a '92 XO-1; my brother a '93 X0-2, and his then wife, a ditto X0-1. Nice, wouldn't mind having my '92 back, but hardly of collectible quality; my '73 Motobecane Grand Record is a better bike than the '92 XO-1 -- better tubing, better handling, more clearance for fenders and panniers, better rear load handling capacity (and the Motobecane was sold as a racing bike).
I expect -- I've never owned or ridden one, just judging from the comments, including first hand comments from owners and riders -- that the RB-1s were the best of the Grant Bridgestone USA bikes. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:22 PM, cm <chrispmur...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Call me crazy... but isn’t it possible that sometimes a bike is worth > putting on a pedestal, that it isn't "doomed" because of it? This is > probably one of the last, if not the last, new XO-1's. Sure it was > made to be ridden, but it wasn't ridden. It seems like it is now more > a part of bicycling history, than just a bicycle. I would love to go > to a museum someday and see an un-ridden XO-1. There are thousands of > bikes in musuems around the world and I think we are all the better > for it. I like museums of all sorts and to say something is doomed for > being in a museum seems to diminish the value of what museums do. I am > suprised there isn't discussion of buying it specifically to donate to > a musuem. I will donate $25 if someone seriously wants to get this > started. > > Don't get me wrong, bikes are made to be ridden. There is nothing > worse than a new bike that doesn’t get ridden because it is too cold, > too wet, too rocky, etc. But maybe this is different... > > +1 for this ending up in a museum. (Smithsonian would be so cool!) > > Cheers > > On Apr 7, 2:54 pm, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Paul Sanders <clown.emp...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > That bike has an ironic destiny in store for it. It will likely be > purchased > > > by another collector, who will have paid a pretty penny for one of the > last > > > pristine versions. If they ride it, they'll ride it carefully...never > fully > > > testing it or enjoying it as frame designer originally intended. > > > > > It will likely live it's life on a pedastal. Perhaps one day it will be > > > passed on to another collector, and then wind up in a museum. > > > > > Could one say that bike is doomed? > > > > Nah, it's a bike. It is just an object. This one is a nice object and > > if someone wants it they can do whatever they want with it and it will > > be just fine. > > > > I don't believe you can disgrace or desecrate things. Only people and > > animals are harmed if they are not allowed to live up to their > > potential, in my opinion. > > > > things are just things. > > > > -sv > > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM Professional Resumes. Contact resumespecialt...@gmail.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
