Comments on: Interview with Grant Petersen of Rivendell Bicycle Works http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/ Gino Zahnd's weblog about design, culture, and Whatever™. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:36:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: The virtue of simplicity | The 6-Miler http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-26655 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:04:22 +0000 http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-26655 [...] – Grant Petersen of Rivendell Bicycle Works, from pushbuttonfor.org [...] […] – Grant Petersen of Rivendell Bicycle Works, from pushbuttonfor.org […]

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]]> by: Mark Drury http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-11768 Tue, 08 May 2007 19:09:53 +0000 http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-11768 Jumping in somewhat late here, but I, too, am a fly-fishing cyclist, thought I generally don't do both at the same time. I hope to order an A. Homer Hilsen later this year, to replace an aging Schwinn Crosscut used for commuting and riding with my children. I seem to be of one mind with Grant regarding simplicity and the current state of bicycle manufacture, and just want an all-round comfortable bike that can do a little of most things. Regards, Mark D. Jumping in somewhat late here, but I, too, am a fly-fishing cyclist, thought I generally don’t do both at the same time. I hope to order an A. Homer Hilsen later this year, to replace an aging Schwinn Crosscut used for commuting and riding with my children. I seem to be of one mind with Grant regarding simplicity and the current state of bicycle manufacture, and just want an all-round comfortable bike that can do a little of most things. Regards,

Mark D.

]]> by: Peter http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-1084 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:14:14 +0000 http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-1084 While I have enjoyed the Rivendell perspective, there is a sometimes subtle and sometimes less subtle excusionary quality to the rhetorical technique. Frequent generous gestures towards the ethos of diversity are then accompanied by a somewhat dismissive attitude--GP mimicry: "Of course, you can buy Honjo fenders, that's good too, but they are almost 100 dollars and while aluminum is stiffer its noisy to. Its not what we ride." The recent strange evolution of the two (three?) Rivendell websites has revealed a harsher prose style in what Petersen describes as draft pages. Shimano is taken quite sharply to task at one point, the e-commentators are asked to back off and stop talking about Petersen, and a statement about companies not airing their internal matters appears designed to head off questions about what the heck is happening to the internet face of Rivendell. What is happening? The "Woolywarm" site seems a clumsy parallel universe to the original elegant site, and I recently Googled and think I found a third somewhat independent site. I would be interested in what others make of all this. While I have enjoyed the Rivendell perspective, there is a sometimes subtle and sometimes less subtle excusionary quality to the rhetorical technique. Frequent generous gestures towards the ethos of diversity are then accompanied by a somewhat dismissive attitude–GP mimicry: “Of course, you can buy Honjo fenders, that’s good too, but they are almost 100 dollars and while aluminum is stiffer its noisy to. Its not what we ride.”

The recent strange evolution of the two (three?) Rivendell websites has revealed a harsher prose style in what Petersen describes as draft pages. Shimano is taken quite sharply to task at one point, the e-commentators are asked to back off and stop talking about Petersen, and a statement about companies not airing their internal matters appears designed to head off questions about what the heck is happening to the internet face of Rivendell.

What is happening? The “Woolywarm” site seems a clumsy parallel universe to the original elegant site, and I recently Googled and think I found a third somewhat independent site.

I would be interested in what others make of all this.

]]> by: Gino Zahnd http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-842 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:35:22 +0000 http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-842 So it looks like there's a problem in Internet Explorer on Windoze. I'll look into it. So it looks like there’s a problem in Internet Explorer on Windoze. I’ll look into it.

]]> by: Brian http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-841 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:47:40 +0000 http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-841 Gino, I had the same problem as Doug did. After the first question everything becomes bold and its harder to distiguish questions from answers. Then after the first picture of Grant everything goes into a smaller italics font. Gino,

I had the same problem as Doug did. After the first question everything becomes bold and its harder to distiguish questions from answers. Then after the first picture of Grant everything goes into a smaller italics font.

]]> by: Ahren Rogers http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-826 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:59:50 +0000 http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-826 Do you two want to go fly fishing with me sometime? Wonderful interview. Do you two want to go fly fishing with me sometime?

Wonderful interview.

]]> by: Chris Roy http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-817 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:06:06 +0000 http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-817 Love Grant's thoughts on simplicity. I think that's why I like Rivendell Bicycle Works as much as I do. It's like an escape from the ever escalating gadgets and gizmos in life. I like technology, I like this computer I'm typing on, but not everything needs to change or have features added just because we can do it. Today we buy things to consume them so they have a short lifespan. With my bicycle I'm an owner and even though it's just a "thing" the older it gets the more I can sit and look at it and remember all the places it's taken me. That part of the ownership experience is missing in consumerism and it's a big deal.... at least to me! Thanks for the interview Love Grant’s thoughts on simplicity. I think that’s why I like Rivendell Bicycle Works as much as I do. It’s like an escape from the ever escalating gadgets and gizmos in life.

I like technology, I like this computer I’m typing on, but not everything needs to change or have features added just because we can do it.

Today we buy things to consume them so they have a short lifespan. With my bicycle I’m an owner and even though it’s just a “thing” the older it gets the more I can sit and look at it and remember all the places it’s taken me. That part of the ownership experience is missing in consumerism and it’s a big deal…. at least to me!

Thanks for the interview

]]> by: Gino Zahnd http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-816 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:32:40 +0000 http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/interview-with-grant-petersen-of-rivendell-bicycles/#comment-816 Doug, what browser and OS are you using? I've tested it on most, and can't duplicate your problem. Doug, what browser and OS are you using? I’ve tested it on most, and can’t duplicate your problem.

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