[CR]Re: yo brian!!!!!

(Example: Framebuilding:Restoration)

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:41:12 GMT
To: richardsachs@juno.com
From: <brianbaylis@juno.com>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: yo brian!!!!!

Richie,

You can rest easy. I think you will find my perspective agreeable, unique, refreshing, and honest. Needless to say, I will speak for myself only; since I do presume to speak for others in this regard. I will do my best to write my true feelings while remaining respectful to all of my framebuilding brothers and anyone else who appreciates the bicycle, regardless of the form it takes. I will clarify my statements. Obviously the term purity in this case is not a clearly defined term. I will not taint it with prejudice, but I will try to explain what I mean by it. I think bicycles by nature are pure; which is one of the main reasons I find them attractive and my job an honorable one.

Brian Baylis La Mesa, CA The way I see it, we're all in it for the love of bicycles. Love is love, I shall not seek to find any differences amongst us.


-- Richard M Sachs wrote:
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<To be perfectly honest, very few have maintained absolute purity...>

bee-bee, okay - now you've got my attention. when you phrase stuff like this (above) it doesn't sound very conciliatory. i, too, look forward to the follow-up. i hope you don't paint the picture that those who haven't maintained "purity" are in some ways sullied. e-RICHIE chester,ct

snipped: brianbaylis@juno.com writes: Boy, do I have an answer to that one. It will become the preface to the thing I need to write regarding how (and why) I go about building frames the way I do. To be perfectly honest, very few have maintained absolute purity, as I shall explain. It IS diffucult and generally not profitable and it is labourious. But the rewards and the results justify themselves to a select few people.