Re: [CR]Cool new lug pictures from Peter Weigle

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing)

Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 21:59:55 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: "'Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org'" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Cool new lug pictures from Peter Weigle
References: <C102531FB711D411B5B90060B0A468760DB062@mail.bulgier.net>


Nope... your wife Laurie hit the nail on the head... va Va VOOM! Vargas Girl, no question. But there aren't any bike parts that would live up to those head lugs are there??? (izzat lipstick?)

Chuck "hope my wife doesn't come in while I'm peeping at these pixs" Schmidt SoPas, SoCal

Mark Bulgier wrote:
>
> Kirk Pacenti just sent me some new pix of Peter Weigle's interpretation of
> the Pacenti lugs. Nice! Check out
> http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/FrameParts/Pacenti/Weigle16.jpg
> http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/FrameParts/Pacenti/Weigle17.jpg
> http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/FrameParts/Pacenti/Weigle18.jpg
>
> Especially the last one, a beautiful photo even if you don't know anything
> about what it's a picture of.
>
> I swear, Weigle just keeps getting better. These Pacenti lugs have a unique
> style right out of the bag, but Peter's extra swoops esp in the headlugs in
> the 3rd picture really spoke to me, reminiscent of, I don't know, 60's
> swingin' bachelor pad or Tiki Lounge? Tex Avery cartoon? Somethin'. Wife
> Laurie says they remind her of a Vargas Girl painting with their exaggerated
> better-than-real voluptuousness, the light color of the tubes looking like
> their diaphanous gowns.
>
> Or it could just be the beer talking...

>

> Mark Bulgier

> Seattle, Wa

> USA