[Classicrendezvous] Commuters and court "sponsored" riders (WAS: lights and reflectors)

(Example: Racing:Roger de Vlaeminck)

From: <RALEIGH531@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 09:54:05 EST
To: moos@penn.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [Classicrendezvous] Commuters and court "sponsored" riders (WAS: lights and reflectors)

In a message dated 11/5/00 9:28:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, moos@penn.com writes:
> In the rural area here, the police
> seem almost totally unconcerned with bicycles as there are extremely few
> commuters and most of those are guys who had there license pulled for
> DWI (a public image we need to change, but that thread is probably off
> topic here).

Tell me about it! Walking into a local bookstore, there sits a very clean example of a Bridgestone 200. Wow! I think. Cheaper model than I'd want, but really nice paint, and my size even. On the way out the owner is getting ready to leave and I compliment him on the nice bike. He says "just got it at a yard sale ... needed something to get around on when my license got revoked" oh boy.....spent rest of a strange conversation trying to politely get the heck out of there.

Pete Geurds "who couldn't help but think the squirrels missed one" Douglassville, Pa