On 21 Jul 2005 at 16:16, Tom Sanders wrote:
> Like many folks here, a PX-10 ( In Lemon Ice, yet!) was my first nice bike
> back in the very early '70s. And it was a VERY nice bike! It often stopped
> folks in their tracks to look at it. Perhaps the mid Michigan folks lacked
> the sophistication of the west coasters, but folks around here thought it
> cool, indeed! I never thought of it as being in any way crude or poorly
> finished.
Having just returned from a week in Montana I was surprised to find all this PX-10 activity. I would just add that I find the crudeness of the PX-10's fabrication one of its charms. One feature I particularly like about my 1966 model is that the blue paint down the right fork comes down about 10mm short of the paint on the left. Whoever was responsible for the gold pinstriping then applied the pinstripes at the end of the blue paint with apparently no thought of sending it back for touch-up. :-)
When I was considering having CyclArt do a repaint (something I considered only until I heard the price) I was planning on specifying that they NOT correct this idiosyncrasy.
BTW, thanks to Lee at Glacier Cyclery in Whitefish, Montana our trip was more of a success than it might have been. We managed to get about half way from Illinois to Montana when we discovered that while our bikes were securely mounted to the fork mounts on the car's roof, our front wheels were still home in the garage. Lee rented us a couple of fronts and we were able to get in a good ride up the road on the east shore of Hungry Horse Reservoir.
John Everett - Aurora, Illinois
jeverett3@earthlink.net (John V. Everett)