Fwd: [CR]Re: Here we go again, modern classics, blah, blah, blah.....

(Example: Framebuilders:Tony Beek)

From: <GPVB1@cs.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:44:47 EDT
Subject: Fwd: [CR]Re: Here we go again, modern classics, blah, blah, blah.....
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


> Richard:
>
> P.S.:
>
> The Klein comment got me thinking....
>
> A lavender Klein Team Super built when Gary was still heavily involved in
> making them and they still had the Boron reinforcing is a "Classic" in my
> book. Talk about a ground-breaking frameset....
>
> Make mine a mint-condition 60cm c-t please.....
>

As for the Trek-Kleins, no way. Not in a million years IMHO. Multiple reasons.
> Regards,
>
> Greg Parker
> A2 MI USA
>
> In a message dated 6/23/02 9:55:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> rmrose@toast.net writes:
>
>
> >> So Greg, are you suggesting that none of the newer bikes could ever be
>> classics? Not even if they were both groundbreaking & worked well? Perhaps
>> a
>> Klein or C40 as a couple of examples.
>> Remember I don't own any of these "modern" bikes either, but I suspect that
>> 25 or 30 years from now I'll wish I did.
>> Richard Rose, just thinking out loud in Toledo, Ohio