Alex,
We award you the Croix du bici for your distinguished work in saving condemned bicycles. You'll have to come to Cirque 07 Alex, to pick up your award and tell us more of your stories.
Mike Schmidt
Stirling, NJ
> This bike was found on a scrap heap, under a rather
> heavy fridge, thus the rather battered but original
> paintwork :
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> http://www.pianosromantiques.com/
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> It was programmed for destruction the same day.... A
> small tip to the ironmonger and he helped lift the
> fridge off.....
>
> I have also been on the scent of an absolutely
> exceptional early 50's chromed RH tandem, it turned
> out the widow of the original owner called the local
> metal recuperator who was quite happy to come and pick
> it up with a load of other iron waste...
>
> I wonder what percentage of Rene Herse's have been
> destoyed? I suspect quite a high proportion of the
> early bikes, say pre 1955, (when the original owner
> died the inheritors just judged this was an old bike
> completely past it), a lot less of the later ones...
>
> Alexander March
> Bordeaux
> France
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> p5.vert.ukl.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Wed Aug 30 11:13:58 GMT 2006
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