On 01/29/2014 04:45 PM, Deacon Patrick wrote:
"Not everybody can afford the high quality components that Riv insists
on selling, and it's great that there are options for people who want
not-dumb bikes, and can't afford top quality."
iamkeith, I agree wholeheartedly with this, though I take issue with
most everything else you said. As for the bits Rivendell designed but
do not own, they did that windingly to get the produced in the first
place, knowing what has happened would happen.
Time for some head-scratching. Seems to me most of the components Riv
sells fall into the "high quality - reasonable cost" camp, not the "top
quality" camp. Case in point: other than bar end shifters, how much
Dura Ace do you find in the Riv catalog? Not much that I recall. (And
note, it's bar end shifters, not electronic shifters you find.) Mostly
it's 105 or Ultegra level. While it's quality is just fine, would you
consider the typical-for-a-Riv-build Sugino XD-2 a "top quality" crank?
Fact is, the highest end cranks go for five to ten times what the XD-2
sells for. So, just what are these high end components that are being
complained about?
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