Re: [CR]Now: Old Soldiers

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Cinelli)

From: "Charlie Young" <youngc@netreach.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Now: Old Soldiers
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:36:33 -0500

It is a shame that we didn't have such a category for last year's Cirque. My Viking "Patinator" was a shoo-in.

Charlie Young Honeybrook, PA
> We had the "ugly juju" going on for the monthly Rose Bowl
> vintage ride a few years ago. After everyone had showed
> up on their beautiful vintage lightweights month after
> month it was fun to show up on something with what we will
> call "patina".
> Brian Ignatin has a Rickert from Ted Ernst that spent its
> life next to the Pacific Ocean; very rusty but
> mechanically 100% in function. I have a similar '60
> Legnano Gran Premio. Perfect mechanically but visually
> challenged. And totally original.
> We call 'em "Old Soldiers" and they're a real blast to
> ride in a amongst a group of perfectly restored vintage
> lightweights. In a totally perverse way of course ;)
>
> And the "Old Soldiers" were welcomed as a catagory at last
> year's Velo Rendezvous bike show in Pasadena.

>

> Chuck Schmidt

> L.A.