Nick and Ken, This sort of attitude isn't restricted to bike lovers.
I've been to a Studebaker owners national gathering and also a large gathering of Ferrari owners. Guess which group was having the most fun.
A gent who works about 100 yards from my house has the best Ferrari collection in the Midwest USA, including the very 1st Ferrari GTO. At the height of the period where investors were speculating in exotic cars, the GTO was probably worth $6,000,000 or so. About that time I had a chance to buy my "Dream Car" a clean 1953 Studebaker Commander Starliner Coupe in very good mechanical condition, for $6.000. (The wife just said, "Go ahead. But where are you gonna keep it?")
I've got a stunning Jack Taylor Lugged Tourist, which impresses everyone who sees it. But I think I have more fun riding my well worn 1950 Norman 4 speed.
At 9/4/2007 06:37 PM -0400, Ken Sanford wrote:
>Nick
>Good for you! I totally agree that preserving working class bikes
>is (in its own way) just as inportant as all those RH's and
>Cinelli's that we all seem to drool over.
>I have a 1966 Rudge made with nice staight guage tubing that I am
>trying to 'make right'
>regards
>
>Ken Sanford
>Kensington, MD
>----- Original Message ----- From: "nick Bordo" <nicbordeaux@yahoo.fr>
>To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 6:04 PM
>Subject: [CR]A point illustrated
>
>
>>I know I've amused some people with my RH fun-poking antics, and
>>annoyed many others (to my great satisfaction). This weekend, I
>>bought in a beauty. No RH or Singer, but to my eyes a beauty all
>>the same, and well worth saving. So I'm going to "save" her. You
>>can see this bike and exactly why I think it's important to
>>preserve non-famous bikes at http://membres.lycos.fr/
>>, please click on the bottomost link to the left of page. I think
>>it's called "beautiful bike" or something. It's no stupid joke, I'm
>>dead serious on this one.
>>
>> Nick Bordo
>> Agen, 47, Aquitaine, France
>
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