Re: [CR] Alex Singer photo

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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:47:24 -0500
From: "Barb and Dan Artley" <hydelake@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] Alex Singer photo
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


What I like of the bike in the photo is the complete lack of overlap/crossover, strictly 1-5 & 6-10 (1-4 & 5-8?)

Dan Artley in Parkton, Maryland

Archive-URL: http://search.bikelist.org/getmsg.asp?Filename=classicrendezvous.10812. 0725.eml From: Stronglight49(AT)aol.com Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:51:07 EST Subject: [CR] Alex Singer photo

Great 1947 photo of Alex Singer - builder & bike - from the website which Dirk referenced earlier:

http://www.cycles-alex-singer.fr/uploads/pics/ZZ_Ernest_depart_colmar1947 .jpg

A question: Does anyone recognize or understand the "shorts" (?) which he is wearing? They appear to have leg or knee guards attached by buttons or snaps. I've never seen this before.

Interesting.

... Oh, and I love the little man standing facing the wall in the background - seen just above the handlebar on the bike... and in front of the [ahem] darkened stain on the wall.

BOB HANSON, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, USA