"I'm all for people riding bikes but platform shoes, bell bottoms, and huge collared shirts open to your navel. What were some of you people thinking?"
Yeah, Monkeyman, I agree, TOTALLY. I'm much more comfortable in pants three sizes too big, worn just above the knees. And I'm also really enjoying my purple and orange hair (what's left of it) and extremely awesome pierced tongue. Very stylish. ;-)
John Dunn in Napa Valley
> >>i've been riding 10 speeds since 1968. what about you?
> >>e-RICHIE
>
>
> These last couple of threads have gotten has gotten the voice of my mom
> singing, "Getting to know you, getting to know all about you. . . " I am
> actually enjoying these threads quite a bit and it's getting a lot of
> lurkers out of the wood work. Anyway, let's see my training wheels came
> off when I was four ('74) but I didn't graduate to a "10-speed" until '77
> when my dad got me somethig from the yearly impounded bikes sale so we
> could do weekend tours. My first "real" lightweight was an '85 Bianchi
> Brava, actually it was my brothers but he ended up giving it to me in the
> end. I don't remember the 70's bike boom that much but I still have a few
> of copies of BICYCLING! from '76-'78 to tell me it must have been a scary
> time. . . the 70's not the bike boom. I'm all for people riding bikes but
> platform shoes, bell bottoms, and huge collared shirts open to your navel.
> What were some of you people thinking?
>
> enjoy,
> Brandon"young monkey"Ives
>
>
> Brandon and Mitzi's-- "Wurld uv Wunder"
> http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/
>
> Monkeyman's on going bicycle part garage sale
> http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/
>
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Nobody can do everything,
> but if everybody did something
> everything would get done.
> -Gil Scott Heron-
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!