I will give you the benefit of the doubt that there was nothing implied, but i think you're reading into the title too much. This is a Rivendell Owners Group, but there is no requirement that you have to own or ride a Rivendell. In the same way it was a Riv Rally because we organized it through the list, but never at any point did anyone say you needed to have a Riv to ride. We could have called it the GAP 12 ride, but that doesn't capture how we all met--which is through the Riv owners group.
As Steve points out, by nature of the ride Rivs were the natural type of bike, but other bikes showed up, and the over-riding commonality was that they were all built up in a similiar way (because the route/nature of the ride required that), but no-one said anything about the non-riv bikes. In fact i found it interesting to see a Surly built up or a Kogswell (which are not made anymore so it's rare for me to see one). After the first 20 minutes of ogling and looking over the bikes i think everyone just rode and focused on getting to know everyone. The bikes just 'broke the ice' for all of us to meet. On Saturday, April 28, 2012 1:45:22 AM UTC-4, Ablejack wrote: > > I guess I simply prefer a more egalitarian theme for a ride. Inclusive > rather than exclusive that's all. > I don't think anything negative about the folks and certainly did not mean > to insinuate that. > There are about ten Riv owners in my club and sometimes it's all Rivs on a > ride. No problem, ride whatever you want. > I just didn't like the idea that on a "Riv Rally" someone might feel > having a fancy bike is necessary to come along with the group. > I suppose "pretension" was the wrong way to put it. Truly sorry. > /Still, gorgeous bikes all, and perhaps the best trail in America. > > >> -- 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/-/y7rcdDf9vfAJ. 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.
