Well, I do not swoon at over the top paint and add on, and certainly do not have racing saddles on any of my bikes. But my everyday bike is a custom from one of the builders at the show. As it is the bike I ride the most, I want it to be somewhat special.
On Mar 1, 6:33 am, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > 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. - Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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.
