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Subject: [BOB] Re: $1200 Randonneur Bike
Date: 4/5/2011 6:06:02 PM
List: Internet-BOB
see Sean at Rawland http://www.rawlandcycles.blogspot.com/

Only thing even close... soon ( we hope) to be on the market.

~Mike

On Apr 5, 5:21=A0pm, "David H. Diette" <rollingto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone mentioned that a $1000 randonneur bike, if made available to the
> masses, would be an excellent alternative to several different types of
> current models - hybrids, city bikes, certain road bikes, etc.
>
> In a similar vein, I would love to see a $1200 steel randonneur bike, and
> being a randonneur bike of course it would be equipped with full-coverage
> fenders, permanent lighting front & rear (with concealed wiring), a nice
> French bend in the fork, 650B 42mm tires, a leather saddle, steel toe cli=
ps,
> a frame-mounted pump, randonneur bars and front & rear racks.
>
> To meet that price point it would probably be a Taiwanese tig-welded fram=
e,
> but I think it would catch on. Of course Bicycling Magazine wouldn't be a=
ble
> to figure it out!
>
> Of course the general public (and most bike shops) would need to be educa=
ted
> on the merits of such a general-purpose machine.

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