Grant also stated that he is working on a new book!
On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 4:09:16 PM UTC-5, tc wrote: > > Grant's BLAHG for today (11 June 2018) links to a (very good) radio > interview he did. During that interview, he confirmed a non-disc, > non-squish MTB is in the works. As for other attributes the bike may or > may not have, I don't remember any that were mentioned ... though it > *might* have longish chainstays ... I'm not sure I heard that part > correctly, though. To be available sometime around Jan or Feb 2019. > Prototypes might be available in a couple of months. > > Tom > > On Friday, April 27, 2018 at 3:24:19 PM UTC-4, Jeremy Till wrote: >> >> This might be a stretch, but hey, what's the fun in following a guru if >> you can't spend hours parsing his words and interpreting them? I think >> there might be a hint towards an upcoming trail-oriented Riv (or update to >> an existing Riv) hidden in this passage from Grant's post yesterday >> <https://www.rivbike.com/blogs/peeking-through-the-knothole/sjdflsjfl-april-26> >> : >> >> In mountain bike racing and just riding, it's gone the other way. The >>> early guys were riding unsuitably low-tech bikes, then bikes reached a >>> basic good level of appropriate technology in the late '80s, and now >>> they've borrowed as much as possible—for now—from cars and motorcycles. >>> There are reactions to it the other way, with one-speed mountain bikes, but >>> those are fading fast because...one gear is too limiting for varied >>> terrain. *There's no restraint at that end, and we're going to show 'em >>> all what-for sometime late this year, if we can pull it off.* >> >> >> I wonder what it could be...the before-hinted plus-tire Hunqapillar? >> Bringing back the Bombadil (probably can't be done under the LOTR gag >> order)? Some other new trail-oriented rig? >> >> Honestly, I'm pretty satisfied with my Jones-barred Clem as my MTB >> (well...a threadless fork would be nice), so I'm not anxiously awaiting >> anything, but it would be interesting to see what they come up with. >> >> Let the speculation begin! >> > -- 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.
