Originally Posted by
cudak888
Grant's just got the OP and others pissed off because he's gone more mainstream.
-Kurt
Kurt, as the OP I can assure you I'm not pissed off, nor was this a troll. I genuinely can't understand the oddity of what they transformed into. Maybe I miss their original vintage aesthetic, which I see as slowing dying everywhere and less available to purchase without going custom/ hand built. Guess that's part of being a retrogrouch.
I'd argue that he's not gone more mainstream. We've all been in mainstream bike shops lately and you don't see what he's offering, at least not $3k hybrids. An that's okay, as this is a discussion forum, I was just adding my observations of Riv which nearly a hundred posters have loosely acknowledged.