I love my 50 cm Cheviot (2015). My first good bike and it changed riding for me. I may be considering selling because my husband will likely be getting a Clem L or Platypus and I will need to be able ride the same terrain as him so I may want bigger tires.
On Friday, March 8, 2024 at 6:53:30 AM UTC-8 elizabeth...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm a proud Cheviot owner -- it was my first Riv, actually, purchased in > 2020 from the fine folks at Maine Bike Works -- and can say with confidence > that I will never part with it. : ) My guess is I'm not alone! > > > > On Friday, March 8, 2024 at 7:56:19 AM UTC-5 Joe Bernard wrote: > >> My completely wild guess with no facts to back it up - when has this ever >> stopped me?! - is low volume. The timeline you describe is pre-pandemic >> boom and, I think, pre-the more widely held acceptance of low stepover >> frames as a thing dudes ride. Now there's Clem Ls and Platys as far as the >> eye can see - we don't even have the Clem H anymore - because Riv hit their >> bike boom and everybody rides low step! >> >> *obligatory shots of my low step custom and step-through Clem >> >> [image: Screenshot_20240308_045503.jpg][image: >> Screenshot_20240308_045342.jpg] >> >> On Friday, March 8, 2024 at 4:35:13 AM UTC-8 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! >> wrote: >> >>> Recently a James on this List wanted a 60 cm Cheviot. Pam (who always >>> wants everyone to find their Rivendell and get riding) asked me to help >>> find one. I knew it would be difficult, and while I didn’t find him one, >>> Kim found him TWO, and in James’ preferred color. Happy ending. >>> >>> Anyway, it seems to me (I might be wrong) that Cheviots are rarely for >>> sale. I think they were made from 2014-2019, so they did have a good run. >>> Is it that their owners keep them? Or are there really just so few? Maybe >>> more of them belong to women, and maybe women don’t sell bikes as often as >>> men do? >>> >>> Why is it so hard to find a Cheviot on the used market? This is what I >>> want to know. >>> >>> Leah >>> >> -- 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/23fbb72a-6a91-4830-9b7a-bc6d733165f8n%40googlegroups.com.
