[CR]bike toys, for the big and small.

(Example: Framebuilding:Norris Lockley)

Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:27:20 -0500
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "ADP" <aphillips9@mindspring.com>
Subject: [CR]bike toys, for the big and small.

sigh... how nice to live in a culture that takes cycling as a serious sport, and makes toys that reflect that, instead of living in a culture that sees cycles as a toy... Thanks for sharing those pictures, Richard...

Richard's Playmobile people n' bikes remind me of my son's toddler toys and large collection of lego people and building accessories. They all drove little cars, boats and planes. We had gas stations, docks, police stations and mini race tracks for the little people and their little vehicles. Believe me, if there had been people and bikes available - they'd have ended up as part of the collection. I was the purchaser : )

Now at age 17, my son's "toys" have evolved to bicycles and snowboards and complex electronics ("Mom, I *have* to have a cell phone that downloads ring tones from the 'net,"). I miss the days where he spent hours in imaginative play, constructing and narrating complex scenarios with tiny plastic replicas of real life.

I will say it's nice to have a riding buddy who is developing a taste in real bikes. My son tends more towards the garish, having a thing for those airbrushed steel Colnagos, but at least he appreciates classic steel, and he rescued some East German frame from a dumpster in California over the holidays. I'm hoping that it arrives here in one piece and becomes a realistic semi-restoration project.

Ann Phillips in Atlanta
43 degrees means it's hiking today...