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From: <LouDeeter@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:16:11 EDT
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Meeting Listmembers---Countdown to Cirque

I had the fortune today to meet Ron Edmiston, from just south of Orlando in Winter Haven FL. Ron drove up and rode with our group this morning. He is riding in my car with me and Jonathan Greene to Cirque and this was an opportunity to get to know one another. He showed up wearing a leather helmet and riding with clips and straps on a gorgeous Bob Jackson that had been repainted by Joe Bell. NOS Nuovo Record parts throughout, including high flange hubs and an interesting Fiamme bar and older swallow saddle if I recall correctly.
    The bike was from the 70s with clips for the brake housing, green with cream headtube and seattube panel with red pinstriping around the lugs and yellow decals and cutouts. It wasn't a color combo that I would have thought of, but it was very nice. It was interesting that he normally doesn't ride with the leather helmet and clips and straps but is much more modern in both his apparel and bike. He made a comment about me needing to help him with the shifting. That was funny. I told him that on the route we were taking, he could put it in one gear and that would do for the entire 25 mile course! We found we had in common that we were both former Army officers, he from the famous Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division with purple heart from Vietnam. We had also both had bike accidents in the past 2 years where we had ribs broken, but that I would prefer to forget. It is energizing to meet someone new getting so excited about seeing and talking about bikes. I'm looking
   forward to his experiencing Cirque. I hope we have other new folks coming.
   As Ron said, "I'm not taking a bike, I just want to listen and meet the people." That is what it is all about in the end. Lou Deeter, Orlando FL