On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 15:47 -0800, MichaelH wrote: > Count me amongst the confused. Hunqapillier? What? A replacement > for the Atlantis? I didn't think the Atlantis needed a replacement.
Read the Riv blog. The Yen-Dollar exchange rate has made Japanese production impossible. Rather than having the identical bike replicated in Taiwan, Grant's changed the name and the design slightly. > I don't own one, but if I wanted a classic, straight up touring bike > to head out on a self supported adventure, I can't think of any other > bike I would put ahead of it. If you want one, better get it now. It may be a long, long time before we see Japanese-made Rivs again. > I own a Rambouillet. I bought it because I wanted a great brevet > bike. That's what it is. It didn't need to be replaced > because it was a great expression of it's forms. The Rambouillet name > captured the essence of a great road bike. The Atlantis name captured > the essence of a great touring bike. > > Since then we have the AHH, a nice enough bike for sure, but all it > offers over the Rambouillet is tire sizes not generally needed for a > brevet bike and a name that refers to baseball. For sure it fills a > nich between the other two bikes. Now we're offered a mastadon, that > I can only presume will trudge through knee deep mud. > > Rivendell seems to be increasingly focused on bikes that are either > designed just to cruise around town, or ride off road. > > I ride 30 mies a day on dirt and paved roads. Long rides go 80 to 100 > miles on similar roads. I don't feel like I need a bike to ford > wetlands, or one that has me sitting straight up in the wind. As a > land owner I'm not at all enthused about the craze for off road > riding. Doesn't this sound like exactly what the AHH was designed for? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
