Dale has explained the 1983 cutoff several times over the years, and it makes for interesting reading. For those who are interested in the history of the 1983 cutoff, as well as a deeper understanding of Dale's reasoning, the following is a link to all of Dale's posts which contain "1983" - a total of 46 illuminating posts:
http://search.bikelist.org/
Anybody who reads all 46 of Dale's posts will certainly achieve Master of Cutoff status.
Ray Dobbins Miami Florida
Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> wrote: 10504.0535.eml>
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
On Aug 23, 2006, at 5:16 PM, oroboyz@aol.com wrote:
> Hi Randall:
>
> << his discussion does bring up what I'm sure is a naive question
> -- what is it
> about 1983 that makes it the cutoff year? Is it arbitrary or was
> there a
> paradigm-shifting technological or marketing development? >>
>
> I am going to put this out for response by some of the long
> standing CR members as I have to bolt to a meeting and am a one-
> finger typist and it will take a paragraph or two......
>
> Tell em, lads! (Please!)
>
> Thanks
> Dale
>
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, NC USA
> List owner & web master
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rmikkelsen@aol.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 5:56 PM
> Subject: [CR]Re: Delta brakes -- newbie question
>
>
> This discussion does bring up what I'm sure is a naive question --
> what is it
> about 1983 that makes it the cutoff year? Is it arbitrary or was
> there a
> paradigm-shifting technological or marketing development? --
> Randall Mikkelsen,
> Rockville, Maryland ('78 Chris Kvale)
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