Re: [CR]Restorations

(Example: Component Manufacturers)

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:12:17 +0100 (MET)
From: "kim klakow" <Akimbo71@gmx.net>
To: "John Pergolizzi" <jtperry1@verizon.net>
References: <00cd01c4d5ac$14e57610$2f01a8c0@D1KBTP11>
Subject: Re: [CR]Restorations
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

So,.... who got Terry Weigle then? Lou?

kim klakow grey berlin, grey and wet germany

PS: Got any pics?


>
>
> Tom Sanders wrote:
>
>
> "...bike was a shining, gleaming, non rusty bit of eye dazzle with a
> reasonably good paint job.
> I think if it does not please your eye, it should be made to do so. It's
> yours."
>
> Here's where I disagree: she's not "yours", she belongs to history
> and
> posterity.
> This issue has been hashed out ad nauseum. Western outlook has been to
> leave your mark (graffiti by English explorers on the Temple of Dendur at
> The Metropolitan Museum), to "improve" (the repaint of the George Mount
> Olympic bike). Hey, unless she is almost a bucket of rust, you can always
> restore her. Why now? Just to make you happy? And if she isn't the only
> one
> on the planet left, well ride her for J.H.C's sake. Ride her into the
> ground. And if she is the last one on Earth, then what the heck are you
> doing taking away any originality (Peter N. on a last of a Hetchin's
> line).
> "Yea, but I want her to look nice". It's like asking your wife to get
> plastic surgery or you'll leave her for your girlfriend.
> Guy's ,when you have too much time on your hands, go paint your tools.
> A few years ago , the gods were good enough to help land in my lap a
> Peter Weigle bike. Fantastic quality paint job BUT UGLY!!! At least to my
> eyes. Magenta purple/Gumby green/white lugs with black in the heart
> cutouts/
> yellow lettering....UGGGGHHHHHHH!
> So I figured I'd get her chromed. After all she fit and was flawless.
> But I called Peter first and we discovered she was in fact a show bike
> whose
> photos appeared in Playboy magazine with Terry Weigle (no relation) and
> then
> in Bicycling. The bike originally had Campagnolo
> "prototype"C-Record!!!!!!
> Rare and very special! This is The Playboy Wiegle Bike.
> Well, the bike is now with a very caring owner, The Famous Lou
> Deeter.
> I didn't do what I wanted. I did what the bike deserved. Help her show
> her
> history. Not "please my eye".
> This is just my humble opinion and has served me well for ohhhhh the
> last 15 years or so. Problem is it took me the first 15 years to learn.
>
> Sincerly,
> JohnT.Pergolizzi
> Brooklyn, New York
> where it rained almost all day so I have too much energy for this time of
> night
>
> _______________________________________________
>

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