Actually its a great story, I saved the article on my home computer and will forward it to you when I get home this evening. The writer explains to the public in terms they can understand why we CR people enjoy bikes made by hand and heart and that are NOT made of unobtanium or some other machine/CAD produced frame.
Mike Schmidt
Stirling, NJ
=> From: brianbaylis@juno.com => Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:20:58 GMT
Mike and Chuck,
I guess I missed something. I have been working more and typing less lately; is this article online anywhere? I got a call from my mother this morning saying that my Aunt who lives right near Chuck and the Rose Bowl called her saying something about bikes in the newspaper. My Mom said something about mention of her #2 son in the news. I thought to myself, crap, what did I do THIS time. Maybe one of my neighbors thinks I'm an international bike thief or some such piffle. The story should say that I grind them up and eat them in my attempt to beat the world record. What does it say about all of us kooks?
Brian Baylis La Mesa, CA
-- "Mike Schmidt" <mdschmidt@patmedia.net> wrote: I printed out the LA Times article and read it while eating dinner this evening. As I am reading the article, I mentioned to my wife that I know this guy, this guy and that guy and remarked how much fun I had at the Gorski MOY ride while pulling a west coast business trip in January 04. A touch of jealousy set in as I read further about the ride's details. I then look outside the window and watch the snow fall at a nasty pace...when is it going to end.
Well Mr. Schmidt, my excuse for not making your ride Chuck is that it was too damn far or I would have been there with you guys enjoying the day.
See ya in Greensboro
Mike "the other" Schmidt Stirling, NJ - on the right coast
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [CR]LA Times article about the Pasadena ride
> Peter Kohler wrote: > > > > Original Message: > > -----------------
> > From: Gregory Townsend gtownsend3590@yahoo.com > > Date: Tue, 16
Mar 2004 12:55:02 -0800 (PST) > > To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Subject: Re: [CR]LA Times article about the Pasadena ride > > > >
> > "I was emabarrassed about not knowing the age of my bike made so
public on > > my first ride with the group but it was still great
fun. By the way those > > were my Airlites! > > > > Gregory Townsend
> > Monrovia Ca" > > > > Ah so, then my apologies to you and to
Chuck. > > > > One of the reasons a lot of guys with classic bikes
not using them is peer > > pressure.. most seem to be cycling in
groups and I guess they feel out of > > place if not carbon-framed
and spandex-clad. But when they see a classic, > > they come out of
the closet. I had three different guys waxing nostalgic > > about
their Raleigh Internationals and Professionals when they saw my > >
Raleigh Competition... I asked they why the heck they weren't RIDING
them! > > Two said it might be time to dust them off. The other said
he wanted > > something "more competitive" (!).. I guess I disproved
that notion when I > > passed his Litespeed with my 25-year-old Comp
GS! Hint: you'll never be > > bothered with the creaks, rattles and
buzzing of new bikes if you pass them > > at a nice clip on your
lugged steel machine. > > > > Peter Kohler > > Washington DC USA > >
> My '59 Mercian Vigorelli road/track has BH hubs (British Hub Ltd)
that > are threaded on one side for a track cog and lock ring, and
threaded on > the other for a single cog freewheel. They are
stamped "FRANCE", then > "Super-Leger", then "B. H.", and are
equipped with G.B. alloy wingnuts > and amazingly, the solid axles
have four flutes milled the length of the > section between the
bearing cones! Super-light indeed! > > As to guys with classic bikes
not using them? It is my observation, > after having a monthly
vintage bike ride for approximately the past four > years now... and
I'm talking about the LA area where there are literally > thousands
of period lightweight bikes... that there is consistently > between 4
(at the least) and 20 or so (at the most) riders that show up. >
Plenty of people are fully aware that there is a monthly vintage bike
> ride at the Rose Bowl, but for many reasons they won't attend. > >
In other words the reasons for _not_ coming to the ride out number
the > reasons _to_ come to the ride. ("I'm not that good a rider,
it's too > far, my bike is not that neat, you'll laugh at my
clothing, you'll drop > me, it would disrupt my traning, I'm too fast
a rider for you geezers to > stay with, I'm washing my hair," etc.) >
> It's a guy thing (actually an insecurity thing) in my opinion. > >
Chuck "will ride at the drop of a hat" Schmidt > South Pasadena,
Southern California > > . >
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