Steve My Wald basket is affixed to my Nitto Front rack with 8 orange zip ties. I'll bet you $100 that in 5 years, it will still be there. If I deliberately remove the rack just because I feel like it, I pay you $100. If I sell the bike and/or the rack and/or the basket, I pay you $100. If I replace one single zip tie, I pay you $100. If I supply you a photo of that Wald Basket attached to that Nitto rack, with 8 orange zipties still intact, on 6-6-2021, you pay me $100. It's an easy date to remember, as a date of deep reverence and appreciation to you and all other US veterans who have ever served (spoiler: Steve served, but is not old enough to have stormed the beaches at Normandy). You know I'm stubborn enough to collect, and I suspect you are just as stubborn as I am. Wanna have that friendly bet?
I realize that lots of people feel that expensive bicycles should only have expensive things on them, and that zipties are not sufficiently expensive. Some people think an Altus rear derailer isn't expensive enough. Some people think a Wald basket isn't expensive enough. That's an aesthetic opinion, and you are entitled to have it. God knows I'm a snob about many MANY things, so I know snobbery when I see it. I'm not a snob about zipties, but I understand that some people want to be a snob about zipties. Confession time. I'm a snob about British Racing Green. I think BRG is the most overused, ugly and mind numbingly boring color possible for a bicycle. I'm a snob about it. If you gave me a BRG bicycle, I'd either give it away or take to the painter. I'm a snob about it, and I'm allowed to be a snob about it. I realize lots of people love BRG, and they are entitled to love it. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 1:56:07 PM UTC-7, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > > On 06/06/2016 04:46 PM, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Zipties are freaking awesome. I'll stop using zipties when I stop > > appreciating all inexpensive, elegant, reliable, ingenious inventions. > > > > > > And they are so very Rivendell. But, some might say they have no place > on an elegant, expensive bicycle, especially as a hack substitute for > something that should have been there properly as a matter of course > (such as fender eyelets, for example); and they're a whole lot more > acceptable when they don't deteriorate and fail due to UV exposure. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
