Solitude in the Saddle

This is an automatic translation of the Korean original.

Hello.
This is Sereno from Rubi Workshop.

The rapid changes and currents of the age that everyone must be feeling, the endless feast of information pouring out without pause, and, apart from the advance of technology, the time that keeps growing scarcer. Lately I have been experiencing all of these tangled together, so that a day's worth of time is erased in an instant. By the end of a day I have to ask myself again what I did and what I accomplished; the time of the city truly drifts away without direction.

Perhaps that is why.
I see something similar in the trends of the bicycle world.
Watching the new brands and lineups that pour out without rest,
I have lately felt a slight fatigue.

People find peace of mind in many different ways, but for me it is through the means of movement. Cars, motorcycles, and bicycles. Speed. The natural isolation that arises in the process of moving, and the sense of space that arises from that isolation. The space that speed creates is a deeply private space, separated from every relationship.

Something strange happens when you enter this space. Time slows a little, a concentration rarely met in daily life appears, and a curious rapport forms with the vehicle. I suspect the reason adults instinctively want to own a means of movement comes from this. Like taming horses and taming oxen, it is an instinct embedded in our DNA.

A private space.

That is how I see the bicycle.

Just as one might pause to consider the attitude of the architect who designed a good chair or a good space, Rubi Workshop tries to add this perspective when looking at a bicycle. Why did the brand's owner and designer build the bicycle this way? Why, when the age changes so roughly and so fast, do they keep a still posture and attitude?

The Parlee Z-ZERO GT carries the scent of a modernist like Le Corbusier.

Bob Parlee, the founder of Parlee Cycles, now at rest.

A design faithful to the original, an honesty of material and concept, and on that foundation an endless extensibility. It carries a classical beauty clearly different from the modern road bike, while at the same time holding a deep capacity to take on the coloring of many different components. This bicycle, which pursues the individuality of non-individuality to a remarkable degree, offers a good reference point when imagining the value of the bicycle as the pinnacle of private space.

The fate of our generation, which must accept the changes of the age.
When I want to set that fate down for a moment,
I imagine climbing into the saddle of the Parlee Z-ZERO GT.