In a message dated 8/7/2005 9:17:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, chuckschmidt@earthlink.net writes about E-Richie's blog...:
<< ....the focus, or preoccupation with the owner/operator mentality is clearly an american one. and it really isn't all pervasive. mr. minolta didn't make my camera. mr. westinghouse doesn't make the oven. no one named 'levi' made the jeans i h s it so important with this bicycle stuff. >>
Hey, he left out "no one named Mr. Sachs made my Richard Sachs bicycle"! ('Course that's what makes fancy bicycles different from.. say, cameras, toaster ovens and Jessica Simpson's threads...) And doggone it, I just found out Richard Sachs really DID make the 2 beauties I have! Awesome! I like them a whole lot more now!
Dale "Curmudgeon" Brown
Greensboro, NC USA