> I'm not convinced that bike is right for anything. it's a roadster. It's meant for pottering about town and for short journeys doing bits of shopping while you wear normal clothes on a day-to-day basis. It's the single most popular and important style of bicycle, perhaps even of transport, in the world.
Despite its humble utilitarian ordinariness this type of bike can usually go more or less anywhere, and do more or less anything. For all that we in the West spend zillions of pounds on fancy bikes to cycle around the world on, the people in places like Africa, India and the Far East are dealing with the same difficult terrain day in, day out, year after year on this type of roadster. > Its just a really boring bike. Ha! -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Polyhead > Sent: 01 January 2008 10:58 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Another Bicycle Shot --PESO > > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 10:40:08 -0000 > "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't think Dunelts of that period were made in China (presumably > > you mean the same China that makes a lot of cameras for Pentax). > > Dunelt were part of Raleigh at that time and the bikes were made in > > England or in the local market, so that one could have been made in > > the USA. Graywolf may be able to let us know. > > > > People decide their own priorities about what to spend > their money on. > > Just because someone wants to spend a lot of money on a camera it > > doesn't mean they should also spend a lot on other things. I know > > people who have custom-built bicycles that cost more than a car, but > > who wouldn't spend more than a couple of hundred dollars on > a camera. > > I also know people who've cycled round the world (some more than > > once), and now use beat-up old delivery bikes that they rescued from > > the tip. Having an expensive bike means nothing; having an expensive > > camera means nothing. What matters is to have the right bike, or the > > right camera. > > I'm not convinced that bike is right for anything. :/ I > mean, its not really the point of a bike really I suppose, > but, ... The most fun bike i've road all year had a 67" long > front fork and needed a steel cable to keep it from folding > in half. Certainly deserved its 6 star difficulty. Chunk > 666 drinks... allot... you expect that sort of bikes out of > Chunk 666. They made a bike from nothing but springs once.. > the only 10star bike in their fleet. It really is unridable. > > > That Dunelt looks like a damn good bike, and one that I'd > be proud to > > own. It will probably outlive you; hopefully. If you do outlive the > > bike perhaps you'll pick up some knowledge, wisdom and > humility on the > > way. > > Eh... looks heavy and slow to me. I'll stick with my > Garymond. ... half Gary Fisher, Half lemond road bike. Its > done the STP classic twice now. I just want an intresting > bike to look at. Its just a really boring bike. > > -- > > Bob > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > > Behalf Of Polyhead > > > Sent: 01 January 2008 08:46 > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: Another Bicycle Shot --PESO > > > > > > Would be a great shot if that made in china hunk of crap bike > > > wasn't in the way. >.>.... really.. people.. you'll drop a > > > grand in a camera but won't drop $500 for a decent rig? WTF? > > > > > > > > > > http://www.graywolfphoto.com/digital/_images/Bicycles/Dunelt-2 > > > 0071229c.jpg > > > > > > > > I kind of like the converging lines in the sky which is why > > > > I darkened it down a bit. Not real sure of my monitor > > > > calibration yet on the new OS load, so it would be nice if > > > > folks would comment on how it looks on their system. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Graywolf (Tom Rittenhouse) > > > > Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com > > > > Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/ > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > --------- > > > > > > > > -- > > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > > > directly above and follow the directions. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Ben 'Polyhead' Smith > > > KE7GAL > > > > > > -- > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > > [email protected] > > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > > > above and follow the directions. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > > > -- > Ben 'Polyhead' Smith > KE7GAL > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
