I got stopped the other month in my neighborhood by a guy in a car, who rolled his window down to ask me something. I popped my headphone out (which I often use in my neighborhood when off for a commute), expecting to have to try and give some impromptu directions as that's what usually happens in these interactions. He kindly repeated his question, "Is that a Clem Smith Jr?" And I was, I have to admit, a little floored. Apparently a friend of his had also bought a Riv from the local Riv dealer (A1) and he'd been looking. So, that was an unexpected and lovely interaction.
I've got a few other 'nice Riv!' from other Riv or bought-parts-from-Riv riders (I think there're at least 3 Bosco'ed bikes in my city now, including another green Clem that somewhat confounded me when I realized what I had passed). Can't comment too much on the shops though, I do my own wrenching for everything but wheels and most of the shops around here are roadie and hybrid oriented, so, I'm already the oddball. I had a service guy at the big and commercial but still good shop tell me I was the first person yet to ask the shop about 650b studs. A1 excluded (they're just a lot farther away and I have to plan to get to them, less good for a quick item like patches or tubes). On Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 8:44:59 AM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > This is so odd, or perhaps I just live in a very nice city. Not only have > I ever gotten only praise and interest for my Rivendells and other such > oddities, but I've been a favorite at one of the high end, Cervelo selling, > Madone stocking, carbon fiber living shops in town. Owners drooled over > Rivendells, 1958 Herse, late '70s Ken Rogers British Racing Trik*. Local > roadies and grocery store doofuses all say, "Nice bike!" > > Hell, I even had the owner of another now defunct high end store accept > the 30 lb rear wheel from a 3 speed Schwinn for spoke replacement and > truing without a single grimace or sotto voce comment, and this was 25 > years ago before I had any real shop cred. > > (Though I did have a snarky youth make a deprecating comment about my hot > rodded 1992 XO-1 ... Perhaps it was the purple rims and SRAM drop bar twist > shifters?) > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 6:19 AM, 'Chris Lampe 2' via RBW Owners Bunch < > rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> When I first started looking into building up my own bike, I visited an >> LBS and in conversation I casually mentioned RBW being an influence and the >> owner grimaced and said something to the effect of "stay away from those >> Rivendells......". About a year later, I was in there again and he was >> showing off his new Salsa that he chose for the frame material being steel >> and the chainstays longer.....for comfort. >> >> >> >> On Friday, September 9, 2016 at 10:55:59 PM UTC-5, PG wrote: >>> >>> >>> Will Ashe wrote: >>> >>> I live in Los Angeles, and as such am intrigued. Would it be a Riv >>>> dealer or just carry Riv like parts and gear? >>>> >>>> Will >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>> >>> Will, >>> >>> By rivvish, I mean a shop that understands a wide variety of bike >>> designs, and accepts them all as valid. Or, to put it another way, a >>> shop where you can walk in with a Rivendell and not get laughed out the >>> door. (That's happened to me before.) >>> >>> >>> Paul >>> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@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. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > ************************************************************************** > ************** > *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a > circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and > individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu > > *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the > world revolves.) *Carthusian motto > > *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart > > *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle > > > -- 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.
