Re: [CR]Reynolds Numerology, was Geezers, etc.

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To: rfitzger@emeraldis.com
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:53:54 -0500
Subject: Re: [CR]Reynolds Numerology, was Geezers, etc.
From: "Richard M Sachs" <richardsachs@juno.com>


while waiting for the brink's truck with all the gold, sent by russ, to arrive, i'm enjoying leafing thru some old 'bike world' issues. i really should be brazing up a fork. but some of these articles in the magazines are beyond great. 'specially with 25 or so years of time gone by. i'm laughing out loud reading a 2 pager called 'people who hang out in bike shops'. are there those among who recall this stuff. from last weeks' thread on 'average age', i guess there are many who were around then, but i couldn't discern what % of the list was actually active in cycling activity in the bike boom years. i've been riding 10 speeds since 1968. what about you? e-RICHIE 47 years old. 1 bicycle. many ideas. (no changes since last week)

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:57:02 GMT rfitzger@emeraldis.com writes:
> Man, that was quick! About three years back, I mentioned in some
> online forum
> or another that I wondered what ever happened to Mr. Sanders. A
> year or so
> later, I got an email from him - he'd been cruising through deja.com
> and
> stumbled onto my query. He no longer rides bicycles - apparently,
> he preferred
> motorcycles all along, anyway. He apparently was not fond of the
> folks who ran
> Bike World, either. He is apparently now a science fiction author
> living
> somewhere in the Southwest (New Mexico? Arizona?). He has a
> website, but I no
> longer have it readily available - different computer now, following
> a massive
> crash in 1999.
>
> I may be bringing all sorts of grim, bad karma down upon myself by
> revealing
> his continued existence, though I suspect being a former cycling
> journalist
> isn't quite the same bag as being in the witness protection program
> - if I meet
> a gruesome end involving science fiction improbabilities with Native
> American
> style touches, you'll know how it came to be and why ...
>
> I forgot, or perhaps never knew, that he was known as Sundown Slim.
> Didn't he
> also write an article about riding across the day and night to get
> to a
> friend's house to watch a race the next day, entitled, "Long Ride
> South?" The
> only bit I clearly was the line about his treasured Argus camera
> feeling like a
> kedge anchor is his handlebar bag ...
>
> Russ
>
> > so russ...what's the prize???????????
> > Bike World
> > November 1975
> > page 38
> > " Last Sprint of the Earth Games"
> > by William Sanders
> > whateva' happened to Sundown Slim, anyway!!
> > e-RICHIE (send cash)
> > ____________________________________________________________
> > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:52:53 GMT rfitzger@emeraldis.com write
> >
> > > for those of us who spend way too much time venerating
> velos.1970s bike
> >
> > trivia - the ONLY reference to the above book I have ever seen was
>
> > in an old Bike World article written by a gentleman who informed
> me
> > a couple of years ago that he now would deny ever writing for
> that
> > publication.
> > I won't name him, therefore - but if anyone wishes to speculate
> about
> > who
> > wrote articles on how to keep Simplexes working, or "Last Sprint
> at the
> > > Earth Games,"
> > > well, ...
> > >
> > > Russ Fitzgerald
> > > rfitzger@emeraldis.com
> > > Greenwood,
> > > SC
> > >
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