[CR]Dressing to match Chris Beyer's bike

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From: "Aldo Ross" <swampmtn@siscom.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <596000F0A205D511AABC0002B3152BD8078AD108@na1ecm14.dearborn.ford.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:21:24 -0400
Subject: [CR]Dressing to match Chris Beyer's bike

Many of us were green with envy upon seeing Chris's new bike, so we helped complete the overall effect.

Wish I had a bike to go with the orange San Pellegrino jersey. What bikes did that team ride?

Aldo Ross
drinking S.Pellegrino every day in
Monroe Ohio


----- Original Message -----
From: "Beyer Jr.", Chris
To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: RE: [CR]Dressing to match your bike?



> Chuck, et al:
>
> Any of you who noticed my wardrobe ensemble at the Cirque this year know this is something to which I've obviously devoted much thought. In order to complement the gorgeous Joe Bell paintjob on my Phil Brown touring bike, I customarily wear (from the ground up):
>
> * leaf-green Converse Chuck Taylor low-tops ($25.00)
> * greenish/olive drab wool Army-surplus mid-calf-length socks (3pr/$10.00)
> * olive shorts (non-bicycle-specific) ($9.95, end-of-season sale)
> * light-green-background faux-Hawaiian shirt (Speedo; stretchy; $8.50 @ same end-of-season-sale)
>
> Looking good is its own reward. Good thing I don't own a pink Mercier.
>
> Chris
>
> "I'm so attractive; I don't tell lies:
> I always look so stunning; don't know why.
> It's just a talent that I have: I'm so intelligent, too;
> Sometimes I think I'm wasting my time with you."
>
> - Wendy Wu/the Photos
> _________________________________________________
> Chris Beyer
> Volvo Cars of North America, LLC
> Customer Relations
> Rockleigh, NJ USA
>
> Telephone: 800.550.5658
> E-mail: CBeyer2@volvocars.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Schmidt [mailto:chuckschmidt@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:37 AM
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]Dressing to match your bike?
>
>
> So I was having this discussion off-list about dressing to match your
> bike. Now I know lots of guys get the current clothes to match their
> modern bikes, like a Postal Trek with Postal team clothes, but do any of
> you do the same with your vintage bike.
>
> This is me at a local vintage ride the other day. Anyone else out there
> play dress up or do you think it's over the top?
>
> http://www.velo-retro.com/Chuck1.jpg
> (yeah the bike is from 1950 and I'm from 1944... there, I said it... I'm
> even older than this beat-up Bianchi Fogorissima)
>
> On the West Coast the vintage rides are pretty much like a party. Is it
> like that where you ride when you get together?
>

> Chuck Schmidt

> SoPas, SoCal

>

>

> .