Damned right! Patrick Moore, with his little Dremel, his little hacksaw, his little bastard file, and his little grinding wheel, in ABQ, NM
But Laing, leaving these philistines aside, I have to agree with you -- a roady Riv with the practicality left to other bikes. After all, the principal reason for riding a bike is *FUN* and practicality is a very distant second value; saving the earth is an even more distant 3d -- though practical and earth friendly are hardly to be sneered at. But *FUN* is the *summum bonum* of bike riding, unless you do it because you can't afford a car and have no bus routes; and if you are that sort, you won't be buying a Riv, let me tell you. But this gofast: I have found in the almost 20 years of ownership that this stripped down bike delivers hugely on fun and, I was thinking to myself today, if I had to choose just 1 bike, it might just be this one. I just had a wonderful early afternoon ride on my '99 Joe custom 76" fixie -- Grant agreed to build it with just 1 set of cage bosses and no housing stops *a-tall*, and of course no rd hangar; saved me quite a bit of Dremeling. 76" gear; windy today, and for some reason, this bike just feels easier to pedal than any of my others, including the '03 Curt which is almost identical, but which is built with all the fenders and lights and racks and such doodads. Chauncey is to come on Sat and take the '99 away for longer dropouts and (ahem) that second set of cage bosses for the seat tube. Joe used Riv's then-model "short horizontals" which required me quite a bit of elbow grease with a large rattail file to accommodate a 46 X 15 and a bit of chain stretch. Fortunately, a very little dropout removal goes a heckofa long way in chain takeup. On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > There's little in the way of unsightly versatility our Mighty Patrick of > the Moore can't strip away... :-) > > -- 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.
