Interesting bit of trivia there. Just curious - why did Arnie change the name from Bike Warehouse to Bike Nashbar? I was (mis)informed that he bought out the owners of Bike Warehouse and changed the name.
I bought a lot of stuff from Bike Warehouse in the late 70s. I recall them having cheap prices and fast service - and I LOVED their catalogue!
Steve Whitting
"The Ciocc Cat"
Prairieville, Louisiana USA
Website at http://ciocc-cat.angelfire.com/
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net> Subject: Re: [CR] Bob Stout? To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, "Steve Whitting" <ciocc_cat@yahoo.com> Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 11:38 AM
There was no pre-Arnie Nashbar Bike Warehouse. Arnie founded Bike Warehouse, later changing the name to Bike Nashbar, then more recently selling out to Perfomance Bicycles. I don't know if Arnie has continued any association with operation since the sale. In the early 70's I was a member of The Outspokin' Wheelman, an LAW club in Youngstown, OH, of which Arnie was a co-founder. Arnie was then running what would later become Bike Warehouse out of his garage. Nevertheless, Arnie evidently was large enough or maybe well connected enough to get dealer pricing on Schwinn World Voyageurs, a now somewhat legendary bargain early Japanese Schwinn with a DB CrMo frame and high-end Japanese components,including several original DuraAce bits. This bike was made for only one year, can't remember if that was 1973 or 1974. The World Voyageur was a bargain even at retail, but Arnie got about half a dozen club members these bikes at an even better price. As I recall they were all international orange, although this bike also came in lemon yellow and sky blue.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA
> From: Steve Whitting <ciocc_cat@yahoo.com>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Bob Stout?
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 9:58 PM
\r?\n> In the mid-70s, Bike Warehouse
\r?\n> (pre-Arni Nashbar) published a "framebuilders catalogue"
\r?\n> featuring the "who's-who" of domestic and a few
\r?\n> across-the-pond framebuilders. I recall that Bob Stout
\r?\n> was building some really beautiful frames back then. Does
\r?\n> anyone know if Bob is still in business? Does anyone on CR
\r?\n> own a Stout frame?
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Thanks,
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Steve Whitting
\r?\n> "The Ciocc Cat"
\r?\n> Prairieville, Louisiana USA
\r?\n> Website at http://ciocc-cat.angelfire.com/