Re: [CR] New Member

(Example: Framebuilding:Paint)

To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:06:10 -0700
From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: [CR] New Member


Dear Mike,

I hope we get to see you at the San Diego CR dinner next friday night, in Mission valley at the Mexican restaurant. Sterling Peters is organizing it and many local bike enthusiasts will be there, with our wives:

http://tinyurl.com/c7n6yd

I find that getting on a bike makes me 12 years old again, and I had a very happy childhood (despite being deprived of a high-end bike until I was 18.5 years old.) So I hope very much that by returning to the cycling hobby and this industry, you can recapture some of that psychology and happiness that made you so successful at MASI, Medici, and Simonetti when you were younger.

- Don Gillies San Diego, CA, USA

P.S. Do you offer any independent-contractor services that could benefit the CR list? Such as painting, KOF frame building, frame repair, lug filing? Do you think you could offer a frame building class to local San Diegans at some point??

Are you interested in restoring MASI, Simonetti or Wizard cycles? There is nothing like a nearly undetectable restoration by an original artist. The availability of OEM restoration services for these brands (MASI, Wizard, Simonetti/Simo) makes these bikes worth 25% more, at the very least.

I always like to hear what KOF builders consider the "most classic" bikes today. If you had an unlimited budget, what would your favorite ride be today ?? What builder would you use, and what parts would you use ??