Grant prompted me to get off my butt. I knew I needed (NEEDED, I SAY!) a BLUE saddlesack medium. Despite the fact that I have one in Olive already the reasons were myriad
1. It's blue 2. My kids are 13 and 15 and this is the Summer of Campouts, and both are big enough to carry their own stuff 3. Riv has a vanishing number of matching blue fender flaps 4. My olive one has the 'good enough' but not 'best possible' leather bottom. The Blue one has the best possible new bottom. 5. It's blue 6. I would handwring up a storm when the blue ones are sold out 7. It's good for the soul to put money in the register at Rivendell Bicycle Works 8. The matching blue shopsacks are coming, and will all look splendid on my new 650B Atlantis that's coming 9. It's blue So on my way to work I rolled by RBW HQ, saw the cool blueys in person, and bought a Saddlesack Medium and a matching pair of fender flaps. Bill bag-matchers-gonna-bag-match Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 5:53:15 AM UTC-7, Grant @ Rivendell wrote: > > At some point in the distant but forseeable future there will be a > scramble for sackville bags, and it will be lead by those who already have > a bag made with the highest quality materials and a flat-floored pouch that > doesn't tilt the load, and has a stiff lower lip and a flap-tongue that > contains the stuff inside so securely that the straps are almost > superfluous. "distant" is underterminable, but is not a ploy, and > "forseeable" is in sharper focus. Debate and wait all you like--the bags > are expensive, no doubt, but in 22 years of business, I've run into only > four vendor-suppliers (out of a thousand?) whose quality standards were > higher than our own, that never needed "guidance" or ramping up, and > Waterbury Leather Works--who makes those bags for us in Connecticutt—is one > of them. > > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
