Re: [CR]What to call this type? (Was 50 yrs from now...)

From: First Flight Bicycles <firstflight@abts.net>
To: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>, <KCTOMMY@email.msn.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]What to call this type? (Was 50 yrs from now...)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:19:27 -0500
Disposition-Notification-To: "First Flight Bicycles" <firstflight@abts.net>

I think this is called restofication in the auto world. A combination or restoration and modification. Old style-new function. Jeff Archer First Flight Bicycles 216 S. Center St. Statesville, NC 28677 704.878.9689 704.878.9683 FAX firstflight@abts.net http://www.firstflightbikes.com

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From: OROBOYZ@aol.com
To: KCTOMMY@email.msn.com
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 10:04 AM
Subject: [CR]What to call this type? (Was 50 yrs from now...)

> In a message dated 1/4/01 7:18:29 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> KCTOMMY@email.msn.com writes:
>
> << The bike will be done Rivendell style (eclectic mix of old and new, with
> friction shifting.) >>
>
> Russ Fitzgerald and I have just been privately discussing these bikes that
> are eclectic mixes of old and new.. Old frames with a spattering of new parts
> .......New frames that are made in acknowledgment of older forms (Rivendells,
> etc.)
>
> "Neo Classics?" .... "Classic Mannerists?" .... "Vintage Hot Rods?"....
> "Irvings?"
>
> No really, what moniker would best and most succinctly describe these
> immensely rideable and refined mounts..?
>
> Dale Brown