[CR]To wrap or unwrap, that is the question...

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From: Tom Sanders <tsan7759142@sbcglobal.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:30:05 -0400
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Subject: [CR]To wrap or unwrap, that is the question...

We have had the ride it or not ride it so many times that I hesitated to jump in here. I want to come at this from a little different angle. Years ago I would have said either way was fine...ride it or not ride it. I still would say that for other folks, however I find my own attitude on this changing of late. When I get out a bike to ride and time after time I just leave some gleaming beauty hanging and ride one of my regular riders I soon come to have much less of a bond with the non-rider. I no longer care to have bikes I don't ride. No doubt one of the reasons I sell so many nice bikes. Talking with others on the list, I find them expressing a similar sentiment. Now, I am not at all sure whether it is a function of growing older, of more experience as a collector of bikes, or some individual peculiarity (which my friends will attest I have in no short supply...No comment is needed here, Bob :^)...) but I have less and less willingness to give space to bikes I don't use. It is this change I wanted to comment on. I'm not sure if the others who have expressed a similar attitude to me have similar reasons for this shifting in collecting strategy or not, but if your attitude has changed on this, also, I think it would be interesting to hear a little of the thought process behind your present take on collecting
bikes.
Tom Sanders
Lansing, Mi USA