The Silver was the final run of Quickbeams. I remember because there was some discussion about the Q on the seat tube decal being a little odd and maybe slightly less refined than other Rivendell graphics. I think the silver was the only color that had that specific decal.
I believe the Quickbeam was originally intended as a bike to be built by Rivendell's custom builder (Goodrich at the time?) to keep him busy. This was before the hand built bike boom. There are a few prototypes that were made before the project was moved to Panasonic in Japan. Being made in Japan is cool but I'm sure the quality is just as good on the Taiwan built Simpleone. I don't think there is any real difference between them besides the name. I've posted this before but I have a Taiwan built Quickbeam. Post pics of the bike! Cheers! Chris -- 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.
