[CR]a cluster of thanks

(Example: Framebuilding:Norris Lockley)

From: "Russ Fitzgerald" <velocio@meta-net.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:44:09 -0500
Subject: [CR]a cluster of thanks

I rode my new Mercian Vincitore fixed-gear today, and greatly enjoyed it. I promise I'll take pictures and post them sometime in the not-too-distant future.

Riding it and thinking about how all the pieces come together made me realize I need to thank some people -

- thanks, Chuck Schmidt, for sharing that lovely '60 Mercian of yours. It was the push over the edge I needed to order the bike I'd been thinking about for months.

- thanks, Hilary Stone, Ray Etherton, Mick Butler, Bob Reid, and all of the lads on both sides of the Atlantic for turning me onto English clubman's and road-path bikes, as well as the history behind them.

- thanks, Sheldon. I went to your site back in '97 to learn more about a bike I'd just bought - only to see a section on fixed-gear bikes. And then I read it. And I've been hooked ever since.

- thanks, Douglas Brooks. You gave me just the right shove in the direction of ordering my Rivendell. I've never regretted it.

- thanks to all the folks I didn't get to see at the Cirque last year. I've already made my reservation for this May.

- and above all, thanks to Dale Brown for keeping this forum alive and well and functioning.

Russ Fitzgerald
Greenwood SC
velocio@meta-net.net