This is why using a handful of narrowly defined marketing categories to describe bikes is preposterous. Among a lot of cyclists, it's either "mountain" or "road" (insert the word "performance" anywhere you like), unless it's a "hybrid" or a "cruiser" that only a nerdy old lady would ride. My fastest bike is a Cross-check that has drop bars and 40 mm tires and weighs at least 30 lbs. I referred to it as my road bike on a recent group ride, and one of my more category-oriented companions incredulously asked, "you call THAT a road bike?" I asked him what else he'd call it, but he was at a loss to find the appropriate pigeonhole. Country Bike is a neat concept, and one with which most of my bikes closely identify, but nobody outside the Riv Bubble knows the term.
On Thursday, June 28, 2012 10:07:23 AM UTC-5, James Warren wrote: > > Grant writes a book to promote something to counteract a prevailing > mentality. The reviewer's review itself has one sentence that shows how > pervasive that mentality is. The reviewer generally responds positively to > Grant's book and offers the following as constructive criticism: mentioning > a couple of Grant's points with which he disagrees, the reviewer writes, "I > also think the notion of a 31-pound “performance” road bike (that’s how > much his personal bike weighs) is ridiculous." > > > > This tells me that the reviewer has not really gotten the point. I know > the word "performance" is in quotes, so I'm not sure how he is defining > performance. But the phrase "road bike" is not in quotes. The reviewer > adheres to the idea that one's road ride can be only be high-performance > when lightness and acceleration are the highest goals. Elsewhere in the > article, the reviewer says that cycling should be much more. But he himself > can't allow the thing called "road riding" to incorporate cycling's other > joys. That's a bummer. > > > > -Jim W. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Frederick > Sent: Jun 28, 2012 4:38 AM > To: "rbw-owners-bun." > Subject: [RBW] Review of "Just Ride." > > From none other than BIKE magazine, one of the best mtb mags. out there... > > http://www.bikemag.com/news/reviewed-just-ride/ > > Steve > > -- > 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. > > -- 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/-/SIT3tBgvw_0J. 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.
