Re: [CR]Fixed gears & track bikes

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From: "Raoul Delmare" <Raoul.L.Delmare@worldnet.att.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>, "Bruce C." <BruceCumberland@comcast.net>
References: <20040223155406.74169.qmail@web11907.mail.yahoo.com> <403A54BB.BD46BA9F@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Fixed gears & track bikes
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:19:22 -0600


Sir !

I do beg your pardon most humbly .

However , it is my unfortunate duty to point out , unto you , your lack of mentioning the most elegant of terms for that component which elevates one's saddle significantly above one's bicycle-frame .

Although some ( surely the lower classes ) may term such an item a "seat-post" , or some such other crude and unseemly term . . .

We would prefer to only hear ( and see ) the term Saddle-Pillar , henceforth .

Everyone please adjust all of your own vocabularies , immediately .

That is all .

;^)

Raoul Delmare
Marysville Kansas


----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Schmidt
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]Fixed gears & track bikes



> Now you guys are making me all nostalgic and teary eyed over Dick
> Swann's "Answer Man" columns in Bicycling in the mid 1970s with the
> endless debates over "seat" and "saddle" (it's called a "seat post" not
> a "saddle post," no it's called a "seat pin," shudup, noooo YOU shudup!).
>
> And of course "clincher" or "wired on" tires... errrr tyres.
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California

>

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