Re: [CR] Dick Power link (was Best Name for a Bike Company (was worst name))

(Example: Framebuilders:Dario Pegoretti)

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:19:21 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: "rocketman531" <rocketman531@earthlink.net>
To: "joel metz,ifbma/sfbma" <magpie@messengers.org>, FedMaritime@aol.com
Subject: Re: [CR] Dick Power link (was Best Name for a Bike Company (was worst name))
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

I had owned my Dick Power track bike for years without knowing anything about the builder. One day I entered "DICK POWER" on a search engine. Imagine the offers I got. Pictures, too.

Pat Moffat Tempe, AZ

-----Original Message----- From: "joel metz, ifbma/sfbma" <magpie@messengers.org> Sent: Feb 13, 2004 9:37 PM To: FedMaritime@aol.com Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR] Dick Power link (was Best Name for a Bike Company (was worst name))

oh, the links still there - they just reorganized things a bit:

http://www.bikecult.com/works/collections/dpower.html

-joel


>In a message dated 2/13/2004 6:48:18 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>kohl57@starpower.net writes:
>Well it would be hard to match
>
>Leaver Gough Nuttall
>
>for the name of a cycle manufacturer.
>
>Think so?
>
>How about, "Dick Power"! Don't believe me? Check the Classic Rendezvous
>website for Classic US builders. A photo of a beautiful "Dick Power"
>pista was on
>the Bike Works NYC site. Alas, the link appears to be dead.
>
>If anyone has a line on a Dick Power bicycle we'd like to see it. Probably
>not as nice as those Richard Sex bicycles (Is that how you pronounce it?).
>
>Regards,
>
>Carlo Carr
>(First Mardi Gras parade was this evening)
>New Orleans
>
>
>_______________________________________________

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