Shawn McCarthy wrote: anyway, I'll be in Eatontown, NJ for a month with little or nothing to do after work so if there's a shop or hole in the wall with an old guy who might have known someone's grandfather... you know the drill. I'd be in you debt.
I sez:
I can't really recommend many of the shops in the area as particularly interesting in terms of the CR time frame, but if you want to expand your horizons on the wrong side of the timeline, then go find the metz bike museum in freehold NJ, not all that far off. I recommend any greater NY/NJ/philly area folks to seek it out. I have not been there in maybe 3 or 4 years, so I hope it is still there, the webpage is:
http://www.metzbicyclemuseum.com/
It is mostly really old bikes, but if you can't get your head around that, well, then I feel no pity for you. Very much worth the visit, also a few neat antique cars, mousetraps, bells, lamps, drinking steins and other ephermera.
Well well well well well worth it. I am slightly suprised it is not better known, but it is appointment only...
Later
Tarik
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Tarik Saleh
PO Box 208, Los Alamos, NM 87544
tsaleh at rocketmail dot com
Bicycles, bicycles, bicycles:
http://www.engr.utk.edu/
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