In a message dated 10/20/2002 5:49:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net writes:
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> I don't think you're missing anything. Joe probably thought we would find
> this amusing. I certainly did.
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> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Houston, TX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kurt Sperry" <kurtsperry@netscape.net>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 4:09 PM
> Subject: [CR]RE: We Missed It! (Iverson Olympic)
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> > Is it just me or does this bike look about as desirable as a migraine?
> Take away the tacky Olympic adornments and you have what appears to me to
> be
> the equivilent of a Wal Mart special. The opening bid of $79 seems perhaps
> a
> trifle high even. Or am I really missing something here?
> >
> > Kurt Sperry
> > In sunny (no kiddin') Bellingham WA
> >
> > Subject: [CR]We missed it!
> >
> > http://ebay.com/
> >
> > Joe Bender-Zanoni
Those commemorative bikes were fun, so I daved a few. There was alother that was the 'AAU' commemorative with the punched-out gussett, probably the one from which the Olympic one was recycled.
I remember a painful injury on one way back when The originals had a real hole punched in the gussett with a mylar see-through emblem. We used to punch the emblem out with our finger on the bikes that were headed to the dump. Later, they cheated and used a solid gussett with a mylar decal on it. OUCH resounded through out Varsityland (our old shop) the time I punched solid steel
Larry
Black