Leslie, my point was that people proud of their stuff and their activities get their feelings hurt just as often in fly shops just as often as they do in bike shops, by "well-informed" sales people who may not have or share the experiences of the people they're taking to task. Both are 100-year-old technology. If you don't rate index shifting as a milestone, the last true innovation in bicycles was the chain (it was preceded by the derailleur). My favorite fly rods were made during and 70s and before - Phillipson glass, Thomas and Leonard cane. This rod shows up in the 1915 to 1922 William Mills & Son catalog - it's the first true 3-weight ever sold.
<http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/estes/Chama/aP7050087.jpg> btw, I know a lot of river roads in the Texas hill country where you can't park a car, but a bike is OK. <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/raleigh.jpg> bikefish As far as the original post goes, it's way cool, showing the Velominati can make fun of themselves. However, when tech outshines all else, usually when a neophyte is trying to buy something, Just Ride probably suffers. On Thursday, September 5, 2013 2:56:51 PM UTC-5, Leslie wrote: > > On Thursday, September 5, 2013 2:30:48 PM UTC-4, Ron Mc wrote: >> >> snobbery is human nature, and a the $-largest sports/entertainment market >> on the planet is not going to be short of snob appeal. >> A few rungs down is fly fishing, and I often use techy bike sales kids as >> an analogy to techy fly shop sales kids. My favorite fly fishing essay by >> John Gierach, "Bugs," is about Armstrong's Spring Creek, and the hexagenia >> hatch when fly fishing snobs from all over the world converge and sit >> around in the coffee shop speaking Latin and bird feathers. The local >> guides call it The Neoprene Hatch. But at the river, the guy catching all >> the fish is wearing Red Ball waders, t-shirt and ball cap, fishing an old >> fiberglass rod, and when asked what fly, says, "This big yellow bug. The >> river is covered with them and when I throw it out they eat it up." >> > > > Ha!!! > I would have thought, a few rungs up.... > > Ok, I have to admit, MSL, which is my local Riv dealer, is also an Orvis > shop, and it popping by the fly shop that I spotted the Riv's... > > By Orvis standards, I'm a poor boy. I see/know/am friends w/ a lot of the > 'well-heeled' set, who have to have the latest vice, or some rare feather, > or the newest rod, or a handbuilt bamboo, and every trip is guided... > I've got several rods, and I think they're great ones, but to a lot of > folks, they'd think them bottom-of-the-barrel... I have a used hand-me-down > tying vice, and pick up bits for tying from local craft stores instead of > fly shops... I use cheapy hooks, and tie lots, so if I lose 'em, I'm not > 'out' an expensive fly... I've never had a guide, I just go fishin' w/ my > buddies, who are capable of being guides themselves... just two different > realities.... > > Good comparison, tho'..... > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
