Sorry to drift this, but both the brewery and, presumably, the bicycles
were named after "Nova Albion," the name Sir Frances Drake gave to northern
California upon claiming it for Queen Elizabeth I. The ship is the Golden
Hind. Albion="white" after the cliffs of Dover so New Albion= New England.
I like the connection of ships and bikes. I often describe my Rivendell to
the carbon/tri/"training" set as akin to a wooden sailboat ("slowly going
nowhere, at great expense") while the carbon bikes are more like modern
speedboats. I like to wrap my bars with green tape on the starboard and
red on the larboard
<http://www.cyclofiend.com/cc/2007/cc360-michaelsmith0807.html>.
And (ahem... pardon the self promotion) if anyone wants to know more about
the brewery and can wait a few months, check
out <thecomicbookstoryofbeer.com>
Cheers- Mike in Htfd, CT
On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 11:06:05 PM UTC-4, Bill M. wrote:
> Ahem.
>
> I don't see Rivendell as the inspiration for the New Albion head badge,
> and the name is hardly original.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Albion_Brewing_Company
> The New Albion Brewing Company was founded in 1976 in Sonoma, CA, and was
> the first modern American microbrewery.
> Any guesses what their label looked like?
>
> <http://www.beerinfo.com/2012Winter/NewAlbionBottle.jpg>
> The name is now owned by the folks that make Sam Adams, and apparently the
> brand has been re-introduced with essentially the same graphics.
>
> I can't quite believe that the head badge was designed with no
> foreknowledge of the beer brand labels, especially given the beer reference
> on the bikes' home page, and a model called Homebrew. It feels a little
> disingenuous to me. I'd feel better about it if Merry Sales and KE would
> acknowledge the connection overtly, but that might run them into some
> copyright issues with the folks that own the name in the brewing world.
>
> Bill
> Stockton, CA
>
> On Monday, February 17, 2014 at 12:28:35 PM UTC-8, grant wrote:
>>
>> I swear to God, Allah, Buddha, the Dalai Llama, Bob Dylan, and
>> Nebuchadnezzar that I had nothing to do with it. Jim from Merry Sales DID
>> email me early art of the badge, and I said hmmm, really...? Was a little
>> bummed, but more surprised than bummed, I also know a nd like the badge
>> designer, talked to him about it, have made peace with all, and at no point
>> did things get even close to ugly. After Jim assured me it was not
>> functionally like the Atlantis, no problem. The first one was the red road
>> bike. Next, this Betty Foy-ish colored mixte. It's all fine, but Nope, I
>> had nothing to do with it.
>>
>> We may come out with our own boodjay bike in a year, but --- that's just
>> a rumor at this point.
>>
>> On Friday, February 14, 2014 7:40:06 PM UTC-8, eflayer wrote:
>>>
>>> http://newalbioncycles.com/
>>>
>>> Makes me wonder if, or the degree to which, Grant Peterson may be
>>> associated with these bikes. Not sure how they are differentiated from
>>> Soma, but some nice stuff coming.
>>>
>>
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