moi par example!
kim "le boche" Klakow berlin, France
> Tom Sanders wrote:
>
> > Just got a call from a good buddy who says he is holding a '54 Urago
> track bike
> > for me to look at. Blizzard conditions here (8-10" of new snow and I
> must go
> > out of town tomorrow, so I won't be able to see this for a couple of
> days). He
> > says it is red with chrome lugs, has Campy track hubs ("before they were
> called
> > Campy"...this sounds strange to me, but the guy knows a lot about
> bikes),
> > adjustable Cinelli track stem, Cinelli track bars, and some sort of
> Mavic track
> > headset that he says screws down to tighten it up. Lots of stuff I
> don't
> > understand here. He is selling it for a gentleman in his '80s who is
> the
> > original owner. Starting asking price is $300. Doesn't seem to me like
> I could
> > go too far wrong, but it is way outside my area of familiarity.
> > I could sure use some advice from anyone more familiar with such things.
>
> Tom,
>
> following your rather uncalled for recent comments about France and French
> culture, you should be aware before all else that this is a French bike
> that you are considering. Given your obvious lack of accord with things
> French, I would strenuously recommend that you stay as far away from it as
> possible and offer it up to a more enlightened CR listmember.
>
> Laissez faire et laissez vivre.
>
> --
> Steven Maasland
> Moorestown, NJ
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