Re: [RBW] Re: Blog post about tubing for AHH

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Richters
I'm a software engineer. It really drives me up the wall when someone who's not an engineer asks for some implementation detail based on some buzzwords that they don't understand. Even worse is having to justify design decisions to people who don't have the background knowledge to understand the

Re: [RBW] Re: Blog post about tubing for AHH

2011-02-11 Thread JimD
+1 for what stevep33 says. For me, the way a bike rides is more than the sum of the parts. I got a custom Riv as I knew that Rivendells are great bikes. My Riv rides better than I could have imagined, plus it's gorgeous. As Grant said during one of our conversations, ' don't worry your bike will

Re: [RBW] Re: Blog post about tubing for AHH

2011-02-11 Thread Shaun Meehan
I enjoyed the post. I've never really known what kind of tubing my Rivendells were/are made of (Atlantis and Quickbeam). I've had people ask me what kind of tubing is used on my Atlantis and I've had to answer "I don't know". That's the same answer I give when someone asks me how much my bike weigh

Re: [RBW] Re: Blog post about tubing for AHH

2011-02-10 Thread cyclotourist
My fave: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3639/3649220336_ce38943b09.jpg Can't beat that! On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Roger wrote: > Here's the tubing decal I want: > http://tinyurl.com/4lngmke > > On Feb 10, 5:20 pm, "Oliver S." wrote: > > Grant's post was timely as I've been obsessing o

Re: [RBW] Re: Blog post about tubing for AHH

2011-02-10 Thread Bruce
Does this list operate any other way? :) "Not to split hairs," -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubs

RE: [RBW] Re: Blog post about tubing for AHH

2011-02-10 Thread jim phillips
I agree Pete. I am also an amateur astronomer and mirror and lens makers stopped telling the buyer the actual wavelength coreection of their products because even though you could see no difference, people were reselling mirrors with better "numbers" for more money. And, that pissed the mirror