I guess around 88-89 I had a pretty decent job and I'd gotten a nice bonus, I was looking to replace the custom Cruiser I had built with a mountain bike. My buddy was managing a bike shop in Austin and said he'd help me choose something. I drove up from Houston and looked at what he had, the two I was going back & forth between were an MB-1 & a Klein Pinnacle. It was the 80s so you hafta know I went with the fluorescent green Klein, but I've always kinda regretted it. 6 months later I'm in pretty good shape & start racing. The shop I raced for carried Bridgestone & half the team rode MB-1s, fast forward until the XO-1 came out. I preordered my purple XO-1. I read articles by Grant in Bicycling amongst others, as he championed riding road bikes offroad. Bridgestone closed up shop here and I was aware Grant open Rivendell. I may have gotten some early Rivendell correspondence, but by that time I had the Klein, a Fat City Monster Fat, XO-1 and a couple wicked cruisers. I was pretty much set for quite a number of years, especially since the bulk of what Rivendell was doing was road bikes and I had no real interest in road bikes. My XO was all the road bike I needed.
Fast forward to a few years ago, life happened, wife, 2 kids and more than a few extra Lbs. I had picked up a Rawland Drakkar for commuting in 2010, but I was looking for something I could transition into old age with, my old XO-1 was really 1 size too small for me and I wanted something a bit more relaxed I could hook a trailer to. Somehow I stumbled on the Rivendell Clementine. Ironically, the trailer I have doesn't fit the Clementine, so half the reason I bought it was negated. Since then I've gotten an Atlantis & a Roscoe Bubbe. -- 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/e550c6ca-1ba9-48da-8282-513267453ce4%40googlegroups.com.
