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

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From: "John Quigley" <eurocycle@hotmail.com>
To: richardsachs@juno.com, rfitzger@emeraldis.com
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Reynolds Numerology, was Geezers, etc.
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:19:45 -0600


35 years old. I have been riding 10-speeds since 1976, My first 10 speed was a way too big! orange Magneet (made in Holland), then I got a Motobecane Grand Touring,I guess that is where my love for French bikes started.


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