Ben, In the mid-1990s, I lived in a large condominium complex located next to Lake Murray in La Mesa, California. In the mornings, on the weekends only, iirc, a fellow in full-kilt garb would play his bagpipes. His music, and oft times the sight of wisps of lake fog, always made for heaven-on-earth mornings. Many residents in the area also recreate around the Lake Murray path -- walkers, runners, roller-bladers, strollers, cyclists -- fishers too, on shore or in boats. When yer in the pootler-speed moody on yer bicycle, the path is nice for that. Although, when the path is clear you can go faster. Nearby, off the bike, Cowles Mountain is great for a short hike.
Around Lake Murray then, I rode a Starck-built prototype beam-bike. My design was a key developmental turn for Tom Piszkin's TitanFlex. It turned heads at the BIO Las Vegas show. I'll post pix some day. KOF.
I currently ride a 2006 Redline Monocog. I do figure eights around Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, via the Madison isthmus. Keeps my flame popping.
I also have a mid-to-late 1990s steel Starck. Frame only. Needs fork, paint, and parts. Fillet-brazed. Not "bronze welded."
Joe Starck
Madison, Wisconsin USA
> From: Benjamin Power <bepoq1@gmail.com>
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] What do you ride?
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 7:25 PM
\r?\n> Hi All,
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Ought to have introduced myself when I joined, but never
\r?\n> did\u2014terribly rude, sorry. Ex-pat English now in San Diego
\r?\n> working on a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology (Irish and Scottish
\r?\n> traditional music and also, separately, the singing of
\r?\n> English football supporters) at UCSD. Great
\r?\n> list\u2014thoroughly enjoy all the info/stories/pics and
\r?\n> sales\u2014learning a fantastic amount.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I most often ride my Harry Quinn track frame (fastback
\r?\n> stays etc.) from (if I'm remembering right) '73\u2014fixed with
\r?\n> mostly campag stuff (though mostly Phil/mavic wheels). It is
\r?\n> brilliant\u2014comfortable, stable, fast and responsive, and by
\r?\n> the local bike builder from when I was growing up that I
\r?\n> could never afford. Problem is, it makes me not like riding
\r?\n> my:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Casati Perfecta from I think 81 (before they started
\r?\n> specifying which Columbus tubing it was on the decals
\r?\n> anyway) done up with Super Record (thanks Chuck at Pac Coast
\r?\n> cycles)\u2014I bought it in hopes of it being like a Casati
\r?\n> Goldline Tour (I think it was) that was about the most
\r?\n> comfortable frame I'd ever tried and which I always
\r?\n> regretted passing up. It isn't, I'm not mad about it and I
\r?\n> think I'll probably pass it on. (not fishing Dale, honest,
\r?\n> haven't fully decided to part with it or how I'll sell it if
\r?\n> I do yet).
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Bought it in place of my 53cm lugged Bianchi team issue EL
\r?\n> (italian made\u2014reparto corsa, is it?) with various campag
\r?\n> ergo bits that I got with insurance money after being hit by
\r?\n> a boat while out riding on my Silk Hope, a really fabulous
\r?\n> frame, which I then (with, you'll agree, monumental
\r?\n> stupidity) sold. Never bonded with it Bianchi, stopped
\r?\n> racing and moved to Dublin where I got an old Gios and built
\r?\n> it up fixed (also very comfortable) . In the meantime, the
\r?\n> chrome on the Bianchi's unifork (ugly thing) has shedded off
\r?\n> completely, and now it just sits there, which is a pity,
\r?\n> because it is a nice frame really. Between it and the Casati
\r?\n> I've sort of gone off Italian frames (I know, I know, and
\r?\n> sorry Chuck, Confente built frames are well beyond my means)
\r?\n> and moved back to old English ones:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> And thus: I'm hoping to solve it all by building up an old
\r?\n> 54cm Harry Hall frame from '63, which is very nice and has a
\r?\n> kind of cool patina, as my main rider. (a more modern Hall
\r?\n> was my first really good racing bike that Dad bought me back
\r?\n> in the day\u2014stolen at college over here\u2014so it is sort of
\r?\n> a replacement for that). Trying to build it with English
\r?\n> parts as much as possible and French when not, just as a
\r?\n> change from solid campag which I've ridden all my life. Got
\r?\n> a Williams cotterless from one of the lads on here (ta
\r?\n> mate!) and some GB syncron brakes\u2014though looking for some
\r?\n> Coureur 66 or 88 if anyone's got them. Going to try these
\r?\n> new Lauterwasser bar repros on it too! English headset also
\r?\n> required if anyone's got one, it'll be an A9 otherwise. Any
\r?\n> advice on this most welcome\u2014particularly the issues of
\r?\n> gears, which seem to be a bit tricky if one wishes to avoid
\r?\n> the italians and japanese and still be able to afford to eat
\r?\n> (bear in mind, I'm a 4th year graduate student in
\r?\n> music\u2014ie, skint). I've some stuff for trade I'll put in
\r?\n> another post if anyone's interested.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Cheers all,
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Ben Power, San Diego, CA, ex New Brighton, Merseyside
\r?\n>
\r?\n> bepoq1@gmail.com
\r?\n> http://benpower.info
\r?\n> http://myspace.com/
\r?\n> http://seannossouthwest.com
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> On 2 Feb 2011, at 14:27, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org
\r?\n> wrote:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> > [CR] What do you ride?