On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 01:56 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 16:32 -0800, Marty wrote: > >> Got to see what all the fuss was about on Saturday morning. Granted, > >> there was plenty there to be inspired by, but honestly I was a bit > >> disappointed. Too much bling for me. > > > > > > Funny, that's just how I felt, too. I was glad I went, but I didn't see > > anything that would have tempted me to swap for anything I own. I saw > > many more at the Cirque that I liked a lot and that moved me deeply. > > > > > > Some of the bikes from ant, banjo bicycles and at least one of the > bikes from capricorn would have thinking.
I found that super-wide tired Big Dummy longtail at Banjo entertaining, but I thought it would have been better painted in olive drab and furnished with a pedestal for a .30 cal. air cooled machine gun. I can't imagine living in a place where I'd need a bike like that for a year-round commuter. Do you have any bikes in the fleet at present that were like the ones you saw that had you thinking? I saw some nice city bike/porteurs, but I thought they were all very much over the top for that application and often ill equipped for the real job. For example, the Vanilla had a narrow racing saddle - hardly what would work for me! Besides, who would dream of leaving one of those, fancy and expensive as they all were, locked up outside the drug store or the supermarket? No way! The VO Polyvalent, sure; that's a proper city bike, just like my Kogswell P/R. -- 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.
