Originally Posted by
Trakhak
My friend from Shirley, Solihull, Birmingham, once innocently told a guy with a Harley that she liked his motorbike.
Grant Peterson at one time tried (and, for all I know, still tries) to promote the term "cycler," presumably to be used to identify Rivendell acolytes (steel, cotton, wool, beeswax) and distinguish them from cyclists (carbon, Lycra, technical fabrics, etc.).
He still does, sort of. Riv's whole in-house line of bags, ("Sackville"... was originally "Baggins,") has the tag line "Sacks for Cyclers." I haven't seen him use it often in other contexts, but he may have done. Wouldn't surprise me.
I've always considered it not so much a "tribal membership" thing as a "Grant is kinda weird" thing. Because even though I've been picking up what he's been laying down since the days of the brown Bridgestone catalogs, was a Riv member back in the days of the Rivendell Reader, and will want one of his bikes until I have one, and will likely want another one after I do, Ima be honest...
Grant Petersen is a weird dude. If we want to be dignified about it, we'll call him eccentric. "Eccentric" is a dignified way to say "weird." (I suspect that Grant would prefer "weird," because he's weird like that.)
--Shannon