Re: [CR]Now: What Hipness Is. Was: Retro Cool

(Example: Framebuilding:Restoration)

Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:58:52 -0500
From: "Peter Jon White" <lists@peterwhitecycles.com>
To: Sheldon Brown <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Now: What Hipness Is. Was: Retro Cool
References: <20050103.055018.28046.149986@webmail32.nyc.untd.com> <20050103141959.M94581@veloworks.com> <p06200732bdff444ad830@[10.0.1.6]>
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cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Carapace Completed Umber wrote:
> Quoth Steven L. Sheffield:
>
>> As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that's even remotely cool,
>> then or
>> now, is riding bikes built by people in one-man shops, who had an
>> association
>> with A.S.Gillott and/or Witcomb Cycles.
>
>
> Ewww, you ride bikes you didn't build yourself? How declassé!
>
> http://sheldonbrown.org/brown
>
> Carapace Completed Umber

That Umber guy is SUCH a snob.

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