Not to venture off topic, but the Street Rodding (modified street cars) world refers to an older car that is built to look restored but have modernized running gear, suspension, upholstery and electronics hidden underneath, as a "Resto-rod". So, can this term, or something similar, be applied to bicycles? I call my modernized '39 Schwinn with mixed era components (60's and newer) a "beach cruiser", not a "Hot Rod", but it really is a modernized bicycle in very much the same manner as a Hot Rod or Street Rod, but without the added horsepower. How about a Resto-ride or a Resto-cycle? Just kidding around. My cruiser is my cruiser, and I really don't have a Rivendell style bike. I just have at least one bike for almost every decade since 1888, and they are what they are, and nothing else.
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:19:27 -0500 "First Flight Bicycles"
<firstflight@abts.net> writes:
> I think this is called restofication in the auto world. A
> combination or
> restoration and modification. Old style-new function.
> Jeff Archer
> First Flight Bicycles
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>
> To: <KCTOMMY@email.msn.com>; <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 10:04 AM
> Subject: [CR]What to call this type? (Was 50 yrs from now...)
>
>
> > In a message dated 1/4/01 7:18:29 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > KCTOMMY@email.msn.com writes:
> >
> > << The bike will be done Rivendell style (eclectic mix of old and
> new,
> with
> > friction shifting.) >>
> >
> > Russ Fitzgerald and I have just been privately discussing these
> bikes
> that
> > are eclectic mixes of old and new.. Old frames with a spattering
> of new
> parts
> > .......New frames that are made in acknowledgment of older forms
> (Rivendells,
> > etc.)
> >
> > "Neo Classics?" .... "Classic Mannerists?" .... "Vintage Hot
> Rods?"....
> > "Irvings?"
> >
> > No really, what moniker would best and most succinctly describe
> these
> > immensely rideable and refined mounts..?
> >
> > Dale Brown
> >
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