Bryan - here are my thoughts: (1) Do you think Rivendell should include a little more Grant Petersen in their catalog?
>> The catalog is almost all "I/Grant" -- and I love it for that reason. (2) How much of Fisher / Breezer's product clout comes via their perceived personal "legend"? >> I suspect the people shopping for a utility bike know little to nothing >> about the mtb pioneering for Mr. Fisher or Br. Breeze. If anything, Joe >> Breeze has kind of stayed pure to his motives, and he has a strong utility >> following. In my mind Fisher bikes just sit there along with the Treks (its >> corporate parent), Raleighs, and Specialized in the bike shop without much >> differentiation. I like Fisher's tweed-ish website persona on the Simple >> City site: http://www.fisherbikes.com/bike/series/simple-city (3) To my knowledge, there really is no "father of all-rounding" ... should it be Grant / Riv? What about Rene Herse or Alex Singer? >>All of the above, and probably more. I like to listen to Sheldon Brown's >>podcast interview with Grant - it gives a sense of the strength of Grant's >>voice and ideas out there. And considering how the industry is moving in >>Grant's direction, this interview sounds prophetic: http://sheldonbrown.com/podcasts/grantpetersen.mp3 -Esteban San Diego, Calif. On Dec 22, 1:05 pm, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Bryan @ Renaissance Bicycles > > <renaissancebicyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So, this leads me to a bunch of questions (which I will limit to 3- > > ish): > > > (1) Do you think Rivendell should include a little more Grant Petersen > > in their catalog? > > I think riv should just put out catalogs more often and the reader > more regularly - or make the reader more like the VO blog. > > > (2) How much of Fisher / Breezer's product clout comes via their > > perceived personal "legend"? > > I think Fisher's product clout comes from having a much more serious > marketing budget from Trek. > > I think breezer's marketing only picked up in the last year since fuji > bought them out. > > > (3) To my knowledge, there really is no "father of all-rounding" ... > > should it be Grant / Riv? What about Rene Herse or Alex Singer? > > I think it would be pretentious for anyone to call themselves the > "father of all-rounding". > > -sv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
