I’ve told this story before, but once, years ago, I was multimoding into work —5 miles by bike to express bus, 7 miles on bus across town, and 3 miles to office— wearing nice retrowinter cycling kit, including wool cycling cap and nice Vittoria sheepskin-lined winter clip ‘n’ strap leather shoes. The bus driver asked I I was dressed up for a costume party. I was about to comment earlier but had to ride to the tailor to pick up a new outfit. True (kinda) story. I was having elbow patches put on an old sweater. As usual, BSNYC is right. On Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 2:03:36 PM UTC-5 Jonathan Carmack wrote:
Yeah I don’t know, I was able to finance about 2.5 Rivendell’s by selling a one year used, with some hard miles, sworks SL8. That’s intangible value that doesn’t show up on paper. But I value bikes by how they can be used, strictly utilitarian (don’t ask why I had a race bike, I’m recovering). Snob’s post of today linked to one from 5 years ago, which contained these remarks:
Thirdly–and perhaps most importantly–I recognize that there’s fundamentally no difference between what Specialized and Rivendell are doing, in that both are essentially selling premium two-wheeled recreation to middle-aged people of means…though arguably Rivendell’s approach is far more dignified if, like most middle-aged people, you don’t have the fitness of a professional athlete. Even then, there’s still a sound argument to me made that an over-Riv’ed rider looks just as silly as an over-Lycra’ed one, because if you wear too much of that MUSA stuff at once you’ll wind up looking like Robin Hood: ![]() Patrick Moore, middle-aged (I wish!) person of means, owner past and present of 6 Rivendells, in ABQ, NM.
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