Of all my Rivs, the blue Hillborne gets the most comments. I quite often get compliments about its looks. I have many times gotten the comment, "hey that's an old one!" But I've never had someone try to tell me that it really is an old model. And questions about why the extra frame tube are pretty common as well.
On May 25, 2015, at 11:49 AM, Marc Irwin wrote: > That is a reoccurring question I hear when out among bike enthusiasts. > Nobody cares about the production date or from which batch it may have come. > People are always asking me how old it is. They never ask that about the > Hunqapillar, just the Hillborne. Some are surprised when I tell them it's > only 3 years old or so, but many just don't believe me. Some have even > corrected me with, "No, that's an English brand. A friend of mine had one in > the '70's." They will argue, pretending to know some deep secret about the > lug work that "They just don't make 'em like that anymore." When I try to > explain who They are, I'm ignored and, being the true enthusiasts, they > continue to compliment my "find" and they way I've built it up with modern > components. It's happened a few times now. Is it just me, or has this > happened to anybody else? > > > > Marc > > -- > 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. -- 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.
