I hear ya, Tully, I had a bit of a journey with the step-through/mixte stigma, too, which is really just residue from decades of marketing.
It was always a silly idea. Folding bikes and recumbents have low stepover; as do big, burly, sail-down-the-mountain bikes. People all over the world ride "dutch bikes" and such to work and shopping every day with low tubes which allow them to wear regular clothes without ripping pants and kicking the toptube with dress shoes. I was still on the fence a year ago 'cause I'm an old guy steeped in old marketing, but Grant finally knocked me off that perch. I was at RBW HQ last summer and here comes GP tuling up to the shop on a lovely orange Clem L with a big-old smile on his face. Sold! Right then I realized step-throughs make all the sense in the world, and the Clem with the curvy droptube is SO pretty. Will's Cheviot was another player in my conversion to stop caring about old marketing and embrace pretty frames that are easy to mount/dismount at stoplights. Bonus: No toptubes gouged by handlebars. Let that bar swing, baby! I love my gorgeous Bronzey Green (Will's descriptor) Clem L, and will love my upcoming RBW Blue Cheviot just as much. Get the L! Joe Bernard Vallejo CA. -- 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.
