Give me the worst case scenario for this worry. If you buy a Gus Boots Willsen today and are sincerely worried about specific components, you should buy a couple extra of those specific components. What are they? The only ones I can envision are wide enough rim brake rims in 584. Buy three extra rims if you are really that worried. Have you ever had to discard a bike because you could no longer buy a critical part for it? There are certainly components that have become obsolete, but none of them have resulted in throwing away a frame. Least of all Rivendell Bicycle Works has never made a frameset that is now obsolete due to their inability to source parts. You are free to worry over whatever you want to worry over, obviously, but I think this particular worry is manageable, unless your worry about components is code for "I don't want to buy that bicycle".
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito CA On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 8:53:27 AM UTC-7, masmojo wrote: > When I was in Walnut Creek, I spoke to Will & he was pretty excited about > it. Honestly, I was expecting something along the lines of a Surly Ogre > with rim brakes (& longer chain stays). I too worry about components; not > now, but 10 years from now. -- 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.