Hey Matthew: Beautiful for sure. Very similar to the 72 Raleigh Super Course I'm putting together - almost an identical "vision". Thanks for sharing and I'll do the same when mine is said and done.
Ron Huff
Mountains of the Old North State
CSA
> From: Matthew 'Devotion' Bowne <devotion_finesse@hotmail.com>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] My "Poor-teur" Build
\r?\n> To: "CR discussion list" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
\r?\n> Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 2:09 AM
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\r?\n> Gang,
\r?\n> I just posted some pics to my Flickr of a recently
\r?\n> completed build that I am particularly proud of: my take on
\r?\n> a mid-century French "porteur" bike...or "poor-teur" as I
\r?\n> like to think of it, as it was built almost entirely of
\r?\n> spare bits, hand-me-downs and parts acquired in trade.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Lotsa modified parts hanging off of this circa '71 Fuji
\r?\n> Finest, which was rescued from a garbage heap on the roof of
\r?\n> a Brooklyn "punk house"/squat. The poor thing had been
\r?\n> abandoned, covered in gold spray paint and left for dead
\r?\n> before being saved by Brooklyn framebuilder Johnny
\r?\n> Coast. Mr. Coast was kind enough to pass it on to me
\r?\n> (it didn't fit him) because I promised him that "I had a
\r?\n> vision for it".
\r?\n> My "vision" has become a reality and I now have a pretty
\r?\n> fun little "around town" bike that has already made a number
\r?\n> of trips to the beach, loaded down with beer and a
\r?\n> serape.
\r?\n> Pics can be seen here:
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\r?\n> http://www.flickr.com/
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Thanks for looking
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Matthew Bowne
\r?\n> sweatin' to the oldies in
\r?\n> Brooklyn, New York
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