it remains a concept. It's written as if its a real bike and 3D-metal-printed lugs matter. Not too many bike shops are going to have $700,000 metal 3D printers. I've seen one, and the owner doesn't actually make parts with it - they make models with it.
On Thursday, July 31, 2014 5:18:00 PM UTC-5, DS wrote: > > I agree, would never get one...it looks plasticy and cheap, and I love my > rivendell and vintage bike restorations because of those design principles. > My point is that the scope of the project is interesting, at least from the > perspective of how people are trying to look at a mass produced bike that > is practical and versatile with a commuter in mind. But yes, design wise, > anything that modern looking, especially 3d printed, will never have that > classic design and not appeal to this thread as a whole. > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Steve Palincsar <pali...@his.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On 07/31/2014 05:41 PM, DS wrote: >> >>> http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/31/evo/ >>> >>> Interesting idea....at least for the average commuter looking for a >>> (hopefully) cheap-ish commuter bike. Key thing being versatility. One thing >>> I like in the video is how he says that most bikes look like a >>> frankenstein of parts. One thing I love about the Rivendell ecosystem is >>> that it is a tight knit group of parts (nitto racks, sackville bags, wald >>> baskets, newbaums bar tape, etc) that make it really easy to make an >>> attractive looking and versatile bike. But outside of that Rivendell >>> ecosystem, it doesn't seem to work very well and the frankenstein of parts >>> rings true. I've tried to build riv-ish bikes with cheaper parts, doesn't >>> look good. The downside to this project bike is that the parts all seem >>> proprietary and 3d printed, potentially cheap quality. >>> >>> >> I don't care what parts you put on it, there's no way that Evo is ever >> going to look good. The other part of the "Riv ecosystem" you don't >> mention is faithfulness to classical design principles. You really have to >> work at making a Riv look bad. It can be done, of course; nothing is >> "idiot proof" because idiots are so resourceful, but they really do have to >> work at it. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >> topic/rbw-owners-bunch/M0It4vG8ljw/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
