Re: [CR]Rip van Winkle: where are the steel bikes?

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Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:22:21 -0400
From: "Julian Shapiro" <julians@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Rip van Winkle: where are the steel bikes?
To: HM & SS Sachs <sachs@erols.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, Sam.Fitzsimmons@verizon.net
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I guess there are alot of newbies out there in fancy bikes. The group I ride with every weekend is about 90% carbon and Ti but also about 30% tubulars. A flat sew-up is just a another flat - not a mystery to anyone.

Julian Shapiro
Sag Harbor, NY


----- Original Message -----
From: HM & SS Sachs
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 9:22 PM
Subject: [CR]Rip van Winkle: where are the steel bikes?



> Went out today on a PPTC (Washington area touring club) ride; maybe 40 -
> 50 folks showed up at the start for the "A," "BB," and "B" rides. About 65
> mi. for my "B" group, counting navigational idiosyncracies. I counted 4 or
> 5 lugged bikes, couple of others TiG-welded steel, and all the rest was
> this stuff that I know nothing about. Ti, newer Al, carbon fiber, and
> stuff like that. The '73 Hetchins felt like a bit of anomaly. Of course,
> I'm not sure that most of the group I rode with had ever heard non-indexed
> shifting when it ain't perfect.
>
> Sanity check: had a blow-out, while riding with 2 other folks. Neither
> had ever seen a sew-up before. I guess us old curmudgeons need to do some
> gentle proselytizing...

>

> harvey sachs

> mcLean va