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PG
Oct 23, 2019, 7:43:56 PM10/23/19
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Just when I was starting to think maybe Grant isn't all THAT prescient...
Eric Norris
Oct 23, 2019, 7:46:19 PM10/23/19
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So … add the words “Club Ride” to the name of a flannel shirt, and you can charge $90 for it?
On Oct 23, 2019, at 4:43 PM, PG <4thgea...@gmail.com> wrote:
Just when I was starting to think maybe Grant isn't all THAT prescient...
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Joe Bernard
Oct 23, 2019, 8:34:58 PM10/23/19
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Does it plane?
Patrick Moore
Oct 23, 2019, 10:49:28 PM10/23/19
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IIRC, Rivendell charged a similar price for LS shirts. Expensive, but for small-run, MUSA garments, acceptable. LLB and LE charge $50-$55, and those are made in bulk overseas, I am sure. Synthetic LS jerseys in this year's (or probably, next year's) style can easily go for twice that. And these flannel shirts are hi tec, not just cotton or wool flannel.
But onward to a relevant tangent: The cycling market is fashion driven; that's obvious. But it's interesting and comforting to see that fashion sometimes brings back useful things, when usually it is annoying and even dismaying for its triviality, expense, and fatuity -- $200 sunglasses? $500 shoes? I realize that top of line accessories might very well be better in some ways, but I am not convinced that they are $150 or even almost $250 better* than Tifosis. * $300 sunglasses! https://www.oakley.com/en-us/product/W0OO6046?variant=888392464033 (And sheeit, how silly they look.) This is like Vogue.
I recall that a couple of years ago The Fashion Market brought back what I saw described on 1 site as an innovation in technology that allowed better adjustment of your shoe. That technology? Shoelaces. It' still around, even 2-3 years later!
Me, I hope that flannel shirts and baggy nylon shorts and pants become the fashion must-haves for 2020, and that Rivendell becomes the vendor of choice.
Personally, I do pay full retail for good cycling garments if need be, but not because they are the latest fashions. But I suppose that, if idiots pay too much for things just because they are new this year, that helps keep the cycling industry going for the rest of us.
Mark Roland
Oct 24, 2019, 7:35:13 AM10/24/19
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A new"just wool" Pendleton Board Shirt is $140. Vintage Board Shirts from the 60s, 70s can be had for less--and more, depending on pattern, size, and condition.
Patrick Moore
Oct 24, 2019, 4:21:59 PM10/24/19
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FWIW, I've at least 2 or 3 times and without looking found old Pendleton wool shirts in VG condition at Goodwill. Me, I don't like them, but they do seem to turn up every now and then. About $5 or $6 IIRC.
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A new"just wool" Pendleton Board Shirt is $140. Vintage Board Shirts from the 60s, 70s can be had for less--and more, depending on pattern, size, and condition.
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Patrick Moore
Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique
William deRosset
Oct 24, 2019, 6:47:41 PM10/24/19
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Dear Joe,
On Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 6:34:58 PM UTC-6, Joe Bernard wrote:
A Bemidji mills wool shirt sure does in cool weather. Get the tall version for cycling.
Pendleton woolies get cheap in the used shops come spring, too.
Best Regards,
Will
William M. deRosset
William M. deRosset
Fort Collins, CO
On Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 6:34:58 PM UTC-6, Joe Bernard wrote:
Does it plane?
Jock Dewey
Oct 25, 2019, 9:44:06 AM10/25/19
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Y'all:
Wow, don't know about the BEMIDJI shirts but those VESTS. Now that's some serious vogue. And insulated, too!
Combine with nice knickers (think JITENSHA) and matching sox, good ol' black shoes, so nice! RSF here we come.
Jock Dewey / Athens, GA (where we do often wear wool through our warm 'winters')
William deRosset
Oct 25, 2019, 12:31:56 PM10/25/19
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