Re: [CR]Re: John Howard

(Example: Bike Shops)

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To: "Wspokes" <wspokes@penn.com>, <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Brandon Ives" <monkeylad@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: John Howard
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:33:51 -0700

At 9:29 AM -0400 10/10/02, Wspokes wrote:
>Well, I will toss a little input here. If you were a participant of a
>bicycle shop or company or in the industry, there was a lot of respect lost
>for him at this point when all this occured.

I was in a shop, in fact one that sold bikes like the one in the suit, and was quite let down by his testimony at the time. I just don't think one of the most important American cyclist's of late 70s-early 80s should be written off the way he has been. I can think of only a few Americans who helped bring cycling to the masses before Greg, but John is one of them. I remember all the complaining about his testimony and was pissed off myself, but I just don't see the lasting damage to the bicycle industry that the industry claimed would happen. enjoy, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives SB, CA --
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