After college a friend and I moved from Massachusetts to Bellingham, WA. The car we drove there died as soon as we got there and we were forced to rely on our bikes to get around. I bought an old steel rigid Trek 850 (the really ugly orange, gray, and blue one). When I got a job I bought a "nice" frame from a bike shop- a Kona Team Explosiff. I built it into a rigid 1x8 commuter/ go anywhere kinda bike. I took this bike on my first tour- 3 days from San Francisco to Santa Cruz.
That summer I found an old Outside magazine in an outhouse in Alaska. It was the one with the article about Rivendell and Grant Petersen- "Lead Me Not Into Titanium" I think it was called. It planted the Rivendell seed in the back of my mind. The following summer I rode my trusty Kona from Seattle to Cape Cod. Along the way I ran into a girl on an old RB-1. I swear it was pink but I am very very bad with colors. I have never seen another pink one so I am guessing it was red or something. The combination of the Outside article and 70 days on a very uncomfortable bike, lead me to Rivendells site. Everything just sorta clicked. While not every bike I have owned since has been a Rivendell, they were all heavily influenced by Rivendell. I think in my heart of hearts I am a Rivendell circa 2003-ish cyclist (Custom, Ram, Rom, Atlantis, Quickbeam, Glorius). Current "economic conditions" have forced the sale of two of my Rivendells but I have no plans of ever getting rid of my Quickbeam. Cheers! Chris -- 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.
