Good morning Listmembers
The day's weather at Trexlertown, PA was picture perfecto as well. A bit crisp at 0700 hours but it warmed up by 0900. It seems that alot of CR east coast guys were there. I broke even, so the day was paid for. For 80 bucks, I picked up a Trico ($300. retail) bike case in decent shape and will try it out on Wednesday on the flight out to the left coast. Post meet, (about 2:30 PM ot if you are Tom Adams, 1430 hours) list members Ray Homiski, John Pergolizzi, Dave Neuhous, Robert Anderson, myself and a few others and went for a ride through the countryside. Tom Adams and I shared a booth and while money was not changing hands, we were talking about our plans for Chuckie Velo numero 5. The four of us east coast guys who are making the trip, were at T Town (Pergo,Adams, Bingham Schmidt). We tried to do a last minute pitch to Maasland and Homiski (free floor space in the room) but could not so list members that are going should feel free to unload a barage of "guilt emails" to both of them.
Note to Dale Brown, I wore my CR Jersey and must've had 5 guys approach me and mentioned they met you at Interbike.
I also ran into Ed Beamon who is the manager of the Navigators Racing Team. We are trying to firm up Ed as a speaker for theOct/Nov BVVW meeting. Ed was selling the team's 2005 Colnago bikes as Ernesto sends em a new batch every year. $3750. for a C-50 with Record, not a bad deal. As a reminder, we have a BVVW meeting tomorrow night at John's Pizzeria on Bleeker St.
Regrets: I saw a Bridgestone XO-1 with custom touring racks but needed the funds for other projects in progress so took a pass on it.
CR List members at T-Town Oct 2005: Homiski, Neuhaus, Adams, Bingham, Maasland, Tom "Purple" Hayes, Drinkwater, Pergolizzi, Bender-Zanoni, Skrzypek, Ken Sanford, Simon Firth, Steve Kinne, Billy Rounds, Sam Fitzsimmons, Dan Artley, Larry Osborn, Dave Schultz, Dave Perry, Tahlia Lampert , Missing in action was Angel Garcia and Eddie Albert (both in Italy & Mike Al lison, Interbike) Youse guys were missed.
On to Pasadena
Mike Schmidt
Stirling, NJ
> Tom and I had a funny moment. Joe (proudly): "Hey Tom, I just sold your
> old Girardengo", Tom to paraphrase): "You mean the one you still owe me
> for when I dropped it off at the last meet?" Joe: "Ahem- here ya go",
> Well, we get to talkin' I suppose -what can I say.
>
> I get so busy at these things that I have a hard time scouting around.
> If anything I thought the actual amount of vintage material was up. I
> bought some nice stuff in the probably 20 minutes total I cruised
> around. About 5 BSA hub axles and 4 boxes of nice Swiss spokes from
> Bobby Phillips (my favorite and perennial seller), a set of Duegi shoes
> in my size with the wood soles, TA 3 Arm crankset ( I love 3-arm
> cranks-why? who knows), a Campy hub I needed (thanks to Martin Gold,
> superscout).
>
> Joe Bender-Zanoni
> Great Notch, NJ
>
>
>
> Tom Hayes wrote:
>
> >On what has to be considered spectacular fall weather--mist and cold in
the
> >morning, brillant sunshine buring the mist off and warming to the low
> >seventies on a virtually cloudless day--Trexlertown Swap Meet took place
Th
> >e
> >usual East Coast suspects were there, as were a few from Ohio, one
notable
> >from West Virginia, and other folks from the CR list.
> >
> >In my estimate, the number of vendors was significantly down. I remember
> >last year's fall one had vendors all around the perimeter of the track as
> >well as the interior being full. This year not as full. Perhaps this can
be
> >attributed to the two swaps Trexlertown added to its schedule.
> >
> >In spite of that, I thought--perhaps coming from a highly caffinated
moment
> >,
> >after two double shots of expresso--there was more vintage stuff, more
> >vendors selling classic parts and bikes than in past. Some I thought were
> >interesting: a Colnago decaled track bike that the owner said was a
Whitcom
> >b
> >USA track bike, Steve Maasland had his array of interesting and
> >little-known-to-me Italian bikes, Joe Z.'s table looked like the parts
boxe
> >s
> >in my garage, a Windsor track bike, saw an early seventies Cinelli being
> >rolled away, saw lots of interesting parts--a 150 mm Campy Gran Sport
> >crankset.
> >
> >I sold a few frames, bought a set of wheels that I cannot possibly use,
and
> >a Cyclo hand threading spoke tool missing one die--what every tool chest
> >needs.
> >
> >As I commented last year, I do indeed find it interesting that the
younger
> >folks--the late teens through late twenties--who show the most interest
in
> >the vintage stuff are of the messenger crowd. That, I think, is a slick,
> >unexpected phenomena.
> >
> >I cannot tell whether this year was successful or not: this was the first
> >time going to a swap that I came home with less than I brought. Usually,
> >that would qualify as unsuccessful; this time, however, I am very happy
wit
> >h
> >the result of the day. And the drive through Pennsylvania both on Friday
an
> >d
> >Saturday was all one could want.
> >
> >And if the person who was selling the Colnago track--whitcomb--is on the
> >list and it did not sell, please contact me, I add sheepishly after
saying
> >I
> >came home with less than I brought.
> >
> >A good swap.
> >
> >Cheers.
> >--
> >Tom Hayes
> >Chagrin Falls, Ohio