[RBW] Re: Rivendell style

2024-04-05 Thread Bill Lindsay
The "buy a Milwaukee" is pretty solid advice. Take a nice affordable steel, rim-brake, fat tire road bike, and offer a cheap cantilever post option, and in 15 stock colors. Everybody should have a bike like that in their stable, and that's a pretty great value considering all those options.

Re: [RBW] Re: Rivendell style

2024-04-05 Thread Mathias Steiner
That scouring-pad picture is funny. There is an earnestness at Rivendell that permeates everything they do, particularly the bad ideas. It's all-in, all the time, and I find it endearing. And because I like Grant's writing, and a lot of his ideas make sense, for a while there I bought into t

[RBW] Re: Rivendell style

2024-04-05 Thread Doug H.
I enjoy Bike Snob and the "Just Kidding" boat photo never fails to make me chuckle. Eben's irreverent sense of humor is right up my alley. Not kidding. Doug On Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 11:27:49 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > For those of you too refined to read Bike Snob regularly, you might