Any bicycle company that quotes Meister Eckhart can't be all bad!!!! Keep it up, Rivendell! And happy Thanksgiving!
Patrick Moore, who just picked up his holiday flyer at the PO, riding his 75" fixed '99 gofast in hilly, windy Rio Rancho, NM. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Rivendell Bicycle Works < [email protected]> wrote: > We're grateful for another good year. > > View this email in your browser ( > http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=2090e897f8c7f8d7170a52bbd&id=2f6e414de5&e=706fe9c1c5 > ) > > "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank you,' that > would suffice." > -Johannes Eckhart > > > ** Thanks > ------------------------------------------------------------ > We're all so grateful to our customers for keeping this ship afloat here > in Walnut Creek for twenty years. It's been great fortune to have a > business that makes > fun things, somehow able to survive the slings and arrows of the > recession, new competitors, the internet, international currency > fluctuations, price-competition, defamation and tithes to the taxman. > Business is good, and we're trying to do good business. We'll keep it up in > years to come. But it'd all be nothing without your orders. Thank you. > > > ** Laid Back Fry > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ** Black Friday used to be a bad thing. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the > violet, to smooth the ice... is wasteful and ridiculous excess." - > Shakespeare > > Long before it became a shopping holiday the phrase "Black Friday" in > America referred to financial panic of September 24, 1869 when two of the > most rottenest Tammany Hall Robber Barons (with others collectively known > as the Riv-sounding "Tweed Ring") cornered the gold market, sent prices > plummeting (see our header image) and ruined many a good fortune for > others. Your gold? Worthless! Moohaha! > > Ulysses S. Grant, the great Union Army General of the Civil War was > president during this period, known as the Gilded Age. Despite his > resounding success as an Army General, he was a stupendously bad U.S. Prez, > getting duped by seemingly everyone while trying to fix the broken > country--resulting in various financial panics, corruption charges, etc. > Afterwards, when he was broke and dying of throat cancer (in the picture > above), even publishers were trying to scam him into bad deals for writing > a book. Mark Twain came to the rescue and scored him a deal letting his > family keep 75% of the royalties from the memoir. I read it, it's great! > > He was a horse guy through and through, but any bike-people or otherwise > ramblin-folk out there will enjoy the early parts where he's touring around > the South and Mexico with his buddies on horseback, camping out, climbing > volcanoes, roughing it. They covered a lot of ground. > Don't forget to check out our Holiday Flyer PDF online ( > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzo7-V-zcAdRekZaVDcwbWFvU0k/view) . Some > of the prices are wrong, but hey we're not perfect. Lots of gifty things > like books and saws for people that don't like bikes yet. > > > ** The Changing Colors of Autumn > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Bagmatchers Alert!! > > As Grant noted in the Blug ( > http://rivbike.tumblr.com/post/103234297799/joe-appaloosa-etc-bikes-for-2015-projex-well) > , the cotton fabric on our Sackville Bags will be different colors come > spring. SO if you like tan or olive Sackville bags ( > http://www.rivbike.com/Bike-Bags-s/37.htm) , act soon. They'll be > different colors for at least a year, not saying yet what those new colors > are. > > Also check the blug for the Sam Hillborne anagram contest! > http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Feepurl.com%2F9hU35 > Share ( > http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Feepurl.com%2F9hU35 > ) > > http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=2090e897f8c7f8d7170a52bbd&id=2f6e414de5&e=706fe9c1c5 > Forward ( > http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=2090e897f8c7f8d7170a52bbd&id=2f6e414de5&e=706fe9c1c5 > ) > > > ** Coupon Code > ------------------------------------------------------------ > "Not my circus, not my monkeys, not my problem." > - Polish Idiom > It's the busiest shopping day of the year Friday, but we'll be closed like > we always do (Thursday too). You can avoid the crowds, hey! by shopping > with us online. Place a web order on our site between now and December 8 > using coupon code: > > > > ** thanks > ------------------------------------------------------------ > for 6% off an entire order between $50 and $800. > > We reopen Saturday here with Harry Joe and Scott. Bike, Book & Hatchet has > extended hours too. Come visit, and feel free to call down there 925 > 937-7334. > > ============================================================ > As always we appreciate any feedback. 800-345-3918 Phones are open > Mon-Sat 10am-4pm PST. > Copyright © 2014 Rivendell Bicycle Works, All rights reserved. > At some point, you signed up or "opted in." Click the unsubscribe link if > you want out. No hard feelings. Link around here somewhere. > > Our mailing address is: > Rivendell Bicycle Works > 2040 N. 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If one started by asking, what is man? what are his needs? how can he best express himself? one would discover that merely having the power to avoid work and live one’s life from birth to death in electric light and to the tune of tinned music is not a reason for doing so.”* * -- George Orwell, Pleasure Spots* *Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money suffereth long, and it is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. . . . And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money. * * -- George Orwell, Keep The Apidistra Flying* -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
