masmojo I had a feeling you didn't mean it. I think it's great to hand out approval liberally. It's the disapproval that you should be really careful with. If you meant it as a joke, I accept that.
I agree that my Joe Appaloosa was very expensive and 8 zipties are very inexpensive. I understand the opinion that the cost of 8 zipties is too low to deserve being places on a Joe Appaloosa. It makes me want to go into business artisinally curating zipties, and selling them for $3 apiece. Then it will be sufficiently expensive to deserve placement on a $3000 bicycle. I understand the opinion that expensive bikes shouldn't have any inexpensive things on them. I respectfully disagree with that opinion. If the features are appropriate, the cost is what it is. I'll pay a LOT for the right features, and I'll pay a little if cheap parts have the right features. Bill On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 11:50:55 AM UTC-7, masmojo wrote: > > Yeah, people use zip ties for all kinds of things and I continue to > condone that practice ( oh crap I did it again!). Actually, Bill I used > that language intentionally, because I thought it humorous. As if my > condoning anything meant squat to anybody which I am sure it doesn't! My > sense of humor is rather dry & droll at the same time, sadly. > Thay said zip ties are a cheap hack, always have been & always will be. No > harm in that, but I personally feel thats not acceptable to me as a long > term solution, especially in holding on a basket for numerous years. Now, > maybe you are using zip ties as a sort of camouflage!? Making the bike look > trashy by festooning it with zip ties, pieces of twine, a copious number of > frame stickers, etc. can be a very effective theft deterrent; in which case > I applaud the individuals ingenuity! But, at the end of the day it seems > like antithema or insult to do this to a very beautiful & expensive bike. -- 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.
