Jeremy, this was a timely thread for me. I was thinking this week, outside of this group, there really isn't a place for me to read about bicycles that I like, which are the bikes you are describing. I am looking forward to the Flickr Group and more photos to peruse over.
Dropped bar bikes fell out of fashion for me years ago. I found them uncomfortable at best and is one of the reasons that I was an early adopter of riding mountain bikes as a commuter in the early 80's when the first Stumpjumper came out. I was mesmerized by that bike. I don't even look at dropped bar bikes now, even if you have a Rivendell, the drop bar ruins it for me. When I go to NAHBS and see a well hand crafted bike my thoughts are, can an upright bar be retrofitted to the bike. Better yet, bikes at NAHBS that are designed around upright bars. Yip San makes great bikes with upright bars and many other builders like ANT who you mentioned. My final thought is the name of these bikes. The convention is using just two words to describe bikes, road bike, mountain bike, kids bike, racing bike, downhill bike etc. High Performance Upright Bikes certainly is a mouthful and I am thinking is there a way to describe the bikes in essentially two words or three at the most? Maybe dropping one word to Performance Upright Bikes would be somewhat of a compromise. Maybe others can chime in. Thanks for your Blog and Flickr photos. Looking forward to reading more. -- 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.
