...and here I thought that maybe RST was put into CAPS to hide the modest shortform slang of "ravin' stumpy" (odd, when it's a very attractive boike, but one never knows how Intended Naming gets reworked, eh?); then again for old Zambia hands, RST always stood for Roan Selection Trust, Yankee counterpart to Safrican mining giant Anglo-American and about as unromantic a tag as one could possibly have, although certainly one with a heavy-duty industrial undertone; as for me, in my Canajan parochialism deep-down I just assumed that "Raven" (esp in the basic black colour) was a nod to the squawking boids of da Yukon, their presence celebrated by Robert Service's poetry and further back still by original peoples' mythology & imagery, the name hence evoking sufficient reliability & power to get you just about anywhere, including to Yukon, the only place I've ever been where people referred to The Rest Of The World as "The Outside". (Far too long, dense & complicated a sentence, this--Andre will shudder if he reads it.)
Oi oi oi, so much baggage in a just a word, or less still, in just 3 CAPS.
Enjoy your bike, Robert, and don't worry about too much background noise, it's almost certainly not your hub...
J.
