On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Anne Paulson <anne.paul...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > If you're on this list and you're commuting by bike, you're riding > your commute bike every day. You'll fit it out carefully with the > perfect saddle, the perfect bag, you'll dial in the fit... that bike > is going to be a well-loved bike, whether it's a Rivendell or a > Resurrectio. So, if it's stolen, you'll have lost a well-loved bike. > Not commuting on a Rivendell won't protect you from losing a > well-loved bike if your commute bike is stolen. > > So commute on the Rivendell! And protect it as well as you can. > > After my #3 Riv custom hung on the wall gathering dust for a couple of years because it was "too good" for most of the commuting and errand riding I do, I decided, what the heck, let's live dangerously, and had it converted into a fixed gear commuter; a very nice, indeed, fixed gear commuter, of course that as closely as possible mimics in fit and feel my Joe fixed Riv gofast. I don't regret it, even after yokels, flinging their trashed, rusty Huffys onto the bus bike rakes, rubbed the paint on the top tube and scratched the chain stays, etc. (No, I am not serious, I am kidding about "yokels," please give me break.) OTOH, my $50 '73 Grand Record frameset, purchased to build up a minimally rideable grocery beater, has transmogrified upward into a very, very nice bike with about $800 - $900 invested in it with new dyno lightset and so forth; so eventually I shall be reduced to quivering, tearful anxiety about which bike to lock up outside the store (and I'll buy another beater, etc. Just kidding.)--
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