In a technical sense using "Rivendell" on customs seems perfectly appropriate to me. For the production bikes, there's a name given to the production model that helps the customers categorize the bikes according to characteristics that distinguish one from another. There are fundamental ways that a Hillborne is distinct from the Hunqapillar that are consistent and functional and aesthetic. So that name is useful is identifying the nature of the bike.
For the custom bikes, the only thing they are asserted to have in common is that they were designed by (or at least in conjunction with) RBW. Perhaps lots of them share certain characteristics that might group them into families. But I imagine if that's true that it's heavily an "effect" of the customization process (i.e. similarities of the customers desires per se) and not so heavily the cause of any given bike's nature. With the variation that probably exists among of the custom frames they've produced, "Rivendell" may be the most specific "brand" that's reasonable. Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/Gbxan6FIL28J. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
