hey, steel,

grant prebooks your sweaters too. its rob peter to pay paul is what that is. I don't like it.

Prebooking a 'custom' frame to be built to your specs is an entirely different animal than paying the distributor in advance so he can clear customs duty on a crate of sweaters.

If its just the bleriots that get produced in taiwan, and the rest of his off the shelf, noncustom framesets by panasonic - and toyo - in japan, i misread his confusing diatribes about the golden fleece he builds them with.

i think grant blathering on about a dissatisfied customers mites in their eyebrows shows how elevated grant thinks he is. the story of how he handled that customers return is pathetic.

that's my opinion about rivendell, and i'm sticking with it.