Weird? No! Strange? Yes!
Reflections of myself and accompanied by realizations of the obsessions of my friends and acquaintances have led me on my new quest and challenge. To write, publish and have ready for autographing by the time of the next Cirque my first book, One Rode Threw the Cuckoos Nest."
Is it midnight yet?
Mpoore
Slatyfork, wV
jamie swan <jswan@optonline.net> wrote:I have a slightly different take on this. I am engaged in several hobbies that involve collecting; bicycles being one. The odd thing is that I am not driven to collect anything except ephemera: catalogs, books, posters, owner's manuals etc... Weird right?
Jamie Swan - Northport, N.Y.
bikenut wrote:
> Mark,
> I have an excellent condition original copy that came to me (via Lorne
> Sheilds)
> years ago without the dustcover and signature....$175 seemed like a good
> deal
> then...and now too. Ted Ernst gave me an original dustcover to complete it.
> It's
> very interesting reading. Over the last 9 years or so I have easily
> purchased dozens
> X dozens of olde and new books related to cycling...in English, French,
> Dutch,
> Italian, German and on. I also have somewhere around 1200 cycling magazines
> nearly all from the 1930's-1980's....700 or so are 'Cycling' and it's
> various iterations
> from the teens through the 1970's......First Editions of Frank Patterson,
> epic volumes
> by Chany, hard and soft covers of the 50th, 75th & 100th Anniversary
> Editions of
> American Bicyclist, most every cycling related coffee table book, shopworn
> Brown
> Bros. catalogs, cartons and boxes of brochures, handbooks, manuals, reprints
> and on
> and even a couple hundred or more (actually way more) sportscaster cycling
> cards
> from 1976-77 and Panni cards from 1970-71. Where does it stop? Oh, and I own
> a few bicycles too! We're all a little crazy, some just a bit more than
> others.
>
> Once this Vintage Bicycle passion is set there is no going back...why fight
> it?? I own a
> more than fully equipped/stocked Bike Shop but I'm the only customer. My
> garage(s)
> are a diorama of Cycling. Compared to collecting cars, ski-boats or x-wives
> this is a
> very reasonable hobby/passion/obsession. That's my story and I'm sticking
> to it!
>
> Matt "still has my first Colnago and first wife" Gorski
> Bikenut Shore, CA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Poore
> To: Tom Sanders ;
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:28 PM
> Subject: [CR]More on The Fastest Bicycle Rider Alive book & my butt is
> toast!
>
> > Ok, if I were a real man I would take all that was coming to me as well as
> the blame, but that aside I am going to blame each and everyone of you list
> members. At the Cirque I balked at $35 for a first edition of Hearts of
> Lions and now I just dropped $760 on a book and that doesn't include
> shipping. I was a rational thinking person just three years ago. What
> happened say ye? I got involved with Dale Brown and all his cronies. There
> was a time when I would have to think long and hard about a second bike
> purchase, now with 10 or more in the basement and more on the way I don't
> think about costs, no I sure don't, don't even think about where the money
> will come from. Banks have lots of money and there are banks on every
> corner I tell you. I have seen them.
> >
> >
> > Classic content......nuts about old bikes and stuff related to them. How
> many days 'til the next Cirque?
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark, don't bid against me 'cause my mind ain't right, Poore
> >
> >
> >
> > Slatyfork, WV today and not sure tomorrow if my wife ever catches wind of
> this one
> >
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