I added a nice dose of beausage to my Quickbeam yesterday, and right in front of another Riv-rider, too. The small rack on the front makes the wheel flop over more easily, and the bike tipped over until the top tube hit the stucco... ouch! A nice bruise, up high, visible... but I can live with it, this is a City Bike commuter. Nothing a dab of nail polish won't help.
- Andrew, Berkeley On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 09:21 -0600, Tim McNamara wrote: > > > Time for some individual philosophy: it's a bike not a holy relic. Way > too many people buy a nice custom bike, the bike of their dreams, and then > don't ride it. To me few things in cycling are sadder than a 10 year old > custom bike that still has the original tires, no dirt on it and > unblemished paint. Be a bike rider, not a bike polisher. > > > > Beausage. Learn it. Live it. ;-) > > At the same time, there's no need to be an absolute slob about it, > either. You can ride many tens of thousands of miles and not accumulate > dents and scratches, and there aren't many people who will buy a nice > custom and use it as a beater. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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.
