2/9/03 1:36 PMclassicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org
> wa2vuy@mindspring.com writes:
>
> <<
> By the way, are the "on topic" dates fixed or do they slide up each year? I
> ask because CR logo show until 1980 but I think on topic is now up until
> 1983??? >>
>
> Yes, very observant of you!
> When I decided the cut-off date (sort of arbitrarily but still defendable I
> think) it was set at 1980 and each year I have advanced it to keep the "line
> of demarcation" at a 20 year gap.
> I know the VCC has discussed this approach too. It is hard to find a line and
> stick to it. No mater what cut-off point I chose, someone would argue it
> wasn't correct and that I should change to include their favorite era...
> 1983 is, in a way, even better with the phasing in of Mtbs.... and the
> increase and acceptance of welding.... and the phasing out of NR/SR and
> incoming C-Record.... Incoming clipless pedals, cycle computers..... Incoming
> "aero" stuff including Dura Ace AX..... yada yada..
>
>
> Dale Brown
very interesting. all this time i thought it had something to do with the inception of Hooters (october 1983) and that thereafter culture and art (including bicycles) were never the same.
kind of like the end of the world as we knew it. well ... thats was my theory that i had planned to pass down as mythological folklore .....
http://www.hooters.com/
is there a Hooter's in Greensboro?
ciao,
Ben "never been misself" Kamen
NYC