You shouldn't be surprised by that at all. From my time working in bike retail I can say many $8k+ bikes are sold to people who don't know how to fix a flat let alone care about gear ratios, pneumatic trail, frame angles, or even the fact that handlebars can be raised or lowered. Members of the Bob/riv lists are a special, self-selected, set of enthusiast bike nerds (said with the upmost respect I assure you as I is one too).
Do you think, for example, that Jimmy Carter agonized over chainstay length before ordering his Rivs? I hope not. Hugh "just ride" Flynn Newburyport, MA On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 2:33 PM Jason Fuller <jtf.ful...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It would be surprising to me that someone would spend the money on a > Rivendell without being quite educated about bikes, but let's face it, > Rivendell is quite a "lifestyle brand" in a sense since Grant has a unique > perspective in the industry. So I guess it could happen. Rivendells are > meant to be a "don't worry about the details and just ride your bike" kind > of company but at the price point, I think most buyers are fairly die-hard > cyclists who have probably done a fair bit of their own wrenching. Always > exceptions, though. > > Back to the topic at hand, I do wonder where the dust will settle - the > pendulum can sometimes swing a bit, and it's completely possible that the > average CS length will decrease in the next three years. Maybe it'll > further increase. That's the topic of debate, though. I have fully bought > into the idea that most people ride bikes with too-short chainstays, and I > also believe that front-centers getting longer (and stems getting > correspondingly shorter) is a benefit to most riders. But I also believe > that most too-short chainstays are only too short by a small margin on > small sizes. It's a completely different thing to put 50cm chainstays on a > 61cm frame versus a 51cm frame, and the latter is, in my opinion, a bad > idea (unless it's a touring bike). > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/463192ad-98bd-4605-8fee-ec19eb739381%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/463192ad-98bd-4605-8fee-ec19eb739381%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Hugh Flynn Newburyport, MA -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CANn_HTYHUH5WWuL%2B%2BJm5opubrR9Pf4eeEvegMWEg_AX38zTsKg%40mail.gmail.com.
