Rivendell saved for now...

[dancinkozmo]

joe...i disagree with you , but kudos to sticking to your guns

[Joe Remi]

Originally Posted by dancinkozmo

joe...i disagree with you , but kudos to sticking to your guns

Someone is wrong on the internet!

[Joe Remi]

Originally Posted by peanutgallery

Did you buy an axe?

I bought accessories for my workstand and some cables. You can stop asking this incredibly clever question now.

[Burnette]

Originally Posted by Joe Remi

You have the right to participate in unhealthy discussion, I have the right to call it unhealthy. This isn't complicated.

How is this an unhealthy discussion.

[Joe Remi]

Originally Posted by Burnette

How is this an unhealthy discussion.

The answer is in my previous comments leading to that point. I find restating my argument for people purposely ignoring what I've already said to be quite tedious.

[Peter B]

Originally Posted by Joe Remi

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The orange Ram with full lugs and mid-reach brakes made in Japan would be astronomically expense.

Jeff Lyon will build you a custom MUSA steel frameset with full lugs for mid-reach brakes for <$2k.

[Joe Remi]

Originally Posted by Peter B

Jeff Lyon will build you a custom MUSA steel frameset with full lugs for mid-reach brakes for <$2k.

Then you should buy a bike actually being made by Jeff Lyon for $2k.

[belopsky]

But it’s not a Rivendell

[Burnette]

Originally Posted by Joe Remi

The answer is in my previous comments leading to that point. I find restating my argument for people purposely ignoring what I've already said to be quite tedious.

Nothing in your posts showed where this is an unhealthy discussion, so OK.

Rivendell has more real problems than what's posted on a bike forum. It may even in fact be healthy for them to read this thread to get some good advice and see how they are viewed outside of the echo chamber.

[peanutgallery]

Too much salt and no helmet

Originally Posted by Burnette

How is this an unhealthy discussion.

[Ken Robb]

Originally Posted by Skenry

Maybe not annoying, more like sad. I wish all of them well, no one wants to see a business close, in any industry. I truly feel bad for his employees, they are the ones who stand to get hurt the most. Hopefully this will be a wake up call for Grant AND his staff.

It's just not that hard to sell what people want to buy. I read the RBW list, the iBob list, the Bristone fan facebook, ect.... No one has ever asked for a huge wheelbased, double top tube country bike with homemade rack mounts and grips.

Someone else already mentioned it a couple pages back, want to save the business? Start building the orange Rambouillet again. People are constantly asking for that.

My orange Rambo is the last road bike I kept after buying and selling at least 20 nice bikes of steel, carbon and ti. It does everything I need pretty well and I think it's pretty.

[peanutgallery]

Big spender, what about the soap?

Originally Posted by Joe Remi

I bought accessories for my workstand and some cables. You can stop asking this incredibly clever question now.

[Peter B]

Originally Posted by Joe Remi

Then you should buy a bike actually being made by Jeff Lyon for $2k.

Thanks for the advice Joe but I'm not in the market for a bike right now.

Just offering a little perspective on the competitive domestic market in hopes of keeping this thread healthy.

[Joe Remi]

Originally Posted by peanutgallery

Big spender, what about the soap?

Right, I forgot why I rarely deal with you guys. My bad.

[Burnette]

Originally Posted by peanutgallery

Too much salt and no helmet

That must be it!