Re: [CR] Attracting women with bicycles, or not

(Example: Framebuilders:Mario Confente)

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:26:38 -0800 (PST)
From: "Scott Gabriel" <slipangle2@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinvgrmcqE7rU_a9ROLeYN_aZy20QGkntMAYsEWc@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Attracting women with bicycles, or not


I know how to repel a woman. Just mention acquiring another old bicycle. Works like a charm on my wife.

Scott Gabriel
Cape Cod
US


--- On Thu, 1/20/11, Michael Shiffer wrote:


> From: Michael Shiffer <dennisflange@gmail.com>

\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Attracting women with bicycles, or not

\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 2:03 PM

\r?\n> Quoth Mr. Kohler, "Personally, I

\r?\n> think a Rose Colnago would be more of chick

\r?\n> magnet..." It is hard for me to imagine any bicycle, in any

\r?\n> color, being a

\r?\n> chick magnet. The only exception that springs to mind is a

\r?\n> tandem with one

\r?\n> winsome, wispy hipster rider. If I were one I'd ride

\r?\n> nothing else.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> My daughter had the following experience a couple of years

\r?\n> ago: astride her

\r?\n> fine old orange Lejeune track bike in Philadelphia in the

\r?\n> wee hours of the

\r?\n> morning, she paused for a stoplight outside a bar. A young

\r?\n> lady, leaving the

\r?\n> saloon, saw Isis, ran up and enthusiastically embraced her

\r?\n> while announcing

\r?\n> to no one in particular and to her male escort's obvious

\r?\n> discomfort, "I LOVE

\r?\n> fixie chicks!"

\r?\n>

\r?\n> This is the only incident of actual bike-induced chick

\r?\n> magnetry I have heard

\r?\n> of, and I don't think it is quite what PK had in mind.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Bicycles have featured in my own romantic life, but not in

\r?\n> so direct a

\r?\n> manner. My wife claims to have fallen for my

\r?\n> bicycle-sculpted legs & rear

\r?\n> before giving consideration to the rest of the package.

\r?\n> Again, it wasn't my

\r?\n> pearlescent Olympia she was hot for, just the job it did on

\r?\n> me. She was only

\r?\n> 17 at the time, and must be forgiven her youthful

\r?\n> preferences.

\r?\n> --

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Michael Shiffer

\r?\n> EuroMeccanica, Inc.

\r?\n> 114 Pearl Street

\r?\n> Mount Vernon, NY 10550

\r?\n> (914) 668-1300

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