[CR]Now:Actually _riding_ old bikes! Was:classification

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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 18:59:22 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <85.204d74c4.2a998aee@aol.com>
Subject: [CR]Now:Actually _riding_ old bikes! Was:classification

Tom Donahue wrote:
>
> (cut) Chuck Schmidt shamed me
> off-list...
> (cut) Last Sunday I took it out for a 17-mile shakedown cruise.
> After a few tweaks during the week, I did a quick fifty miler this afternoon...

(cut) the old one (RichardSachs) invited me to keep pedaling,
> pedaling, pedaling, without beating me up, leaning into turns, accelerating
> uphill.

See Tom, see that's what I'm talkin' bout! I switch between current and old bikes pretty much every day. It's all good!

(I have to confess here that I tried the same "shaming thing" on e-RICHIE and got nowhere; he doesn't believe in riding old bikes... pssss... whisper... neither of the famous identically restored twin Masi G.C.s he owns has ever turned a wheel.)

Pity...

Chuck Schmidt
SoPas, SoCal