Re: [RBW] My favorite bike invention!

2012-07-02 Thread PATRICK MOORE
I've just learned what I can make of much of that scrap strip leather I bought last winter from Tandy. Excellent! On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: My favorite "new" cycling innovation: Surly Junk Strap. -- "Push back against the age as hard as it pushes again

[RBW] My favorite bike invention!

2012-07-02 Thread Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery
I didn't start cycling as an adult until well past the MTB boom years, so wide-range and compact gearing have always existed to me... I'd not want to time-travel back to being limited to square taper cranks, threaded headsets, or cantilever brakes, but I can live with any of these on an otherwis

Re: [RBW] My favorite bike invention!

2012-07-02 Thread Kenneth Stagg
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Michael Hechmer wrote: > OK, admittedly a bit, ok a lot, off topic... but Riv people have a > nuanced relationship with technological biking "advancements." So > consider this a philosophical inquiry. (Perhaps even GP will be interested > in this unscientific

Re: [RBW] My favorite bike invention!

2012-07-02 Thread PATRICK MOORE
Does this fall inside or outside of that 35 years? http://tinyurl.com/6qoelw3 Me: fixies! Since ~ 1977? More or less in order of importance FOR ME, orders subject to change at my whim" Rivendells Decent wired-on tires Trickle-down, outstanding chromo etc. butted tubing Mountain bikes Cassett

[RBW] My favorite bike invention!

2012-07-02 Thread Michael Hechmer
OK, admittedly a bit, ok a lot, off topic... but Riv people have a nuanced relationship with technological biking "advancements." So consider this a philosophical inquiry. (Perhaps even GP will be interested in this unscientific survey) Yesterday as I was out for a very pleasant couple of