This thread has touched a few sensitive issues in me, and you've seen I'm not too good at managing them...
- Want vs. Need - Want/Need it now vs. Can/should wait - It's perfect now vs It's no longer perfect - Fiscal discipline Very interesting range of responses from everyone, there are people happy with one bike, there are people happy with n+1 bikes and there are some who've agreed to manage it by keeping the same n number of bikes, so when one comes, one must go. As for Kellie's original post, while I'm not the one who can certainly answer his question, I can certainly say that those two original Rivendells I purchased, the Homer and the Atlantis, have had an incredible staying power throughout all my evolutions, changes and preferences. They are super adaptable and can be set-up as almost anything anyone would want, except super light bikes. I haven't ridden the Apaloosa, so I cannot comment on it vs. the Atlantis. But the aesthetic and emotional components of getting a "dream" bike vs. a "just to ride" bike are certainly very powerful and if one can understand the first two points I made above, truly understand them, the answer usually becomes very clear and one has no regret. These aren't rational decisions, as much as one can pretend they are. Like my choices to go for a custom or to change the 58 Betty for the 60 Cheviot primarily for the seat post size that could let me fit on it even better, these are emotional at core decisions that one can either finance or not. If one can, then it's just a hobby one enjoys; if one can't, then one either does the right thing to wait until one can finance it responsibly, or one chooses to behave irresponsibly. Do what you think is right for you. Get the one you really want or get what's available now. What will you regret the most? Only you can answer that. René On Wednesday, August 24, 2016, Kellie <kellie.staple...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chris: yes I saw your AHH up on the list. No more Rivendells? For price > comparison, how old is your AHH? > > -- > 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 <javascript:;>. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > <javascript:;>. > Visit this group at https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
