Jackie wrote: <snip> As cash-flow allows, I am going to begin gathering parts, and I hope a frame or two, because I like the stuff, and because every time I try to imagine myself on some twenty-one-speed-cassette-hubbed-28-spoke-pedal- systemed monster, a break out in a sweat. <snip>
Two responses: I never want to lose touch with the things that have touched my life. I have been collecting books since the mid '50s. Recently, I have had the wherewithal to "upgrade" some editions, and yet I cannot part with the old books that have been with me so long.
On the other hand, even though I still yearn for a 1956 Raleigh roadster I had as a child and crashed (destroyed) as a teenager, and even though I kept (and keep yet) a low-end Kent for almost 30 years (because each year it was more a part of me), my heart absolutely melts every time a look at this new Richard Sachs bike with 18 speeds and 12 spokes per wheel!
Tom Donahue
Books and Bikes in Melbourne, FL