Bill, firstly I saw your mention about Jitensha Studio on the IBob list. Totally spot on! I've visited numerous times over the past 15 years...and it's never been open!
But also, my mention about the stays & general beach cruiser design is not meant to conflate the "unracer" and the " stern bike-face" people. Instead I think such builds such as this: http://cdn3.volusion.com/ctxtv.wmppt/v/vspfiles/photos/staff3-2.jpg?1474043677 ...including the long stays and naming of bikes such as "Mike Jones III Jr." or whatever is that the brand is moving away from bikes that I fell in love with. To put it another way, these bikes are not my "rod", baby! *"When Grant Petersen was 19, he ordered a custom bamboo fly rod made by Doug Merrick of the Winston Rod Company <http://web.winstonrods.com/>. “I wanted red winding on the guides — ‘Like a Leonard <http://www.hlleonard.com/> rod,’ I said — and a cork grip shaped like a Payne <http://www.efpaynerodcompany.com/> rod. They were two other fancy rods,” explains Peterson. Merrick refused. “I won’t do it,” he told Petersen. “It wouldn’t be my rod, then.” * -- 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.
