Remember the old days when the names were as beautiful as the bikes? Saluki, Cheviot, Atlantis, Clementine...
Platypus. I’m out joyriding on my Platypus. Riding hard on my Platypus. Someone took my Platypus. I just...oh, help... Sent from my iPhone > On May 15, 2020, at 4:14 PM, Pancake <abe.gard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > A possible issue though: confusion for Pete the Cat fans where one of the > secondary characters is named "Gus the Platypus": > <gus.jpg> > > > >> On Friday, May 15, 2020 at 4:11:11 PM UTC-7, Pancake wrote: >> New news in the most recent email blast and blug: >> >> "We have a new design, based on Cheviots, coming after Sams which should be >> fantastic. Here's a picture of the small Losco'd sample: >> >> Rachel, my girlfriend, who is less biased than us and will fit the bike >> perfectly, is going to test ride it for awhile and give us feedback. It's a >> tiny bike for me but I can tell it rides the way we want it to. It won't >> hurt to get a second opinion though. The model name is still TBA." >> "CHEVIOT NEWS: >> The CHEVIOT as it is, is as good a bike as we make, but we've changed a few >> things, and unlike Specialized, which still has a Stumpjumper that's a >> billion light years away from the 1981 Stumpjumper, we don't do that. A >> tweak, OK, sure, same name Two tweaks and we start reconsidering. It's >> something we get to do, although it may bum out some of you. Two >> possibilities have emerged. In alphabetical order, they are: >> Platypus >> Winthrop-Charlene >> Vote in the subject field of an email, like this: >> Model name / Your name >> like: >> Maxwell Smart -- Winthrop-Charlene" >> >> Obviously Platypus (the headbadge will be fantastic!) >> >> My proposed name for the next Cheviot: "Derbyshire Gritstone" (D comes after >> C, anything ending in "stone" fits with the current naming scheme, also a UK >> sheep like the Cheviot). Alternative sheep names: >> Debouillet (like a Rambouillet but a sheep and with a D) >> Churra (renamed to Churro in America, could print the alternate spellings on >> either side of the downtube like the current Cheviot/Cheviut) >> More sheep breed names here: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sheep_breeds >> >> >> >> Abe >> >> >>> On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 6:42:42 PM UTC-7, Joe Bernard wrote: >>> It lives, it's in the new newsletter and here's the pic. I have the >>> somewhat dubious distinction (I think) of being the first "outsider" to >>> know about this project when Grant and Will mentioned it to me at RBW last >>> year. So now I'll start the thread! >>> It's fancy and swoopy and I dig it. I also dig the original name and decals >>> (and sheep) so I'm adding my non-requested vote for keeping them. Check it >>> out, it's pretty! >>> >>> Joe Bernard >>> Marin County CA. >>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/TSzjZMCy1t0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/1d25d0a2-6334-4f37-8c27-4e401c1de635%40googlegroups.com. > <gus.jpg> -- 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/A8DBF133-9578-4582-9D52-423AB1FB6128%40gmail.com.
