Re: [CR] To ride or not

> on 09/06/2002 06:46 PM, J.Dunn at bikehunter@icehouse.net wrote:
>
> > Steven wrote:
> >> Problem is that many new "BOB" types are rejecting the new stuff in favour
> > of the old stuff without ever having tried the new stuff ...
> >>
> >
> > Who is it a problem for? I'm a "new Bob" and I have new stuff. Carbon
> > fiber, STI, clipless, blah, blah. Doesn't keep me from liking the old
> > stuff. Sometimes more. What exactly is a "new Bob" anyway. Is there a
> > CR cutoff?
>
>
>
> If you have the new stuff, then you don't fall into the "new BOB who rejects
> the new stuff ... without trying the new stuff" camp, do you?
>
>
>
> >> " I appreciate the vintage stuff from an aesthetic standpoint. But when it
> > comes down to it, the newer stuff works better, is lighter, and is often
> > less expensive"
> >
> > So What? What does that have to do with appreciating the old stuff whether
> > you used it when it was "current"?
> > " (unless all you're buying is dumpster-reject thrift-store gaspipe crap).'
>
>
> "How do you know you don't like Brussel sprouts, unless you try them?"
>
>
> > I'm not, tho' I have a few of those and proud of it. We're not going to get
> > into a snob thing here again, are we? ;-)
>
>
> The problem is that many of the people affecting the snob attitude are doing
> so from an ignorant/inexperienced point-of-view.
>
> If you have tried both and have chosen one over the other, then you are
> making an informed decision. If you reject one, without ever having tried
> it, then you are ignorant and prejudiced.
>
>
> >> John Dunn in Boise,
>
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>
> Steven L. Sheffield
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