Hola!
I have been amazed and slightly embarassed often as I have stopped people, corralling them to inquire about their classic bikes. The folks with a few more years on them are often unaware that their bikes are classics as we define them. I hate to hurt people's feelings by oooohing and aaaahing over something quite ordinary to them.
I remember a Colnago up at the Solvang prelude several months back. It was black and beautiful and I just HAD to go talk to that guy. (My husband pretended he didn't know me for a moment.) The gentleman was very gracious, but that was simply HIS BIKE, the ONLY bike he'd ridden for years, by God, and he wasn't about to trade it for anything else. "Classic? Really?" he said. I felt I'd committed a slight social faux pas somehow.
Oh WELL!!
Paulie "Ya Sure Meet People in this Sport" Davis
Late Night Los Angeles,
where it's so sunny on the days I have to work.
> stopped to chat with the rider of a Raleigh
> Team 531SL bike while riding
> north of Woodside last Saturday. He's an older
> ex-Brit named Larry. 'Limey
> Larry' he called himself. What a character!
<snip>
> Brad Stockwell
> Back on the warm sunny roads
> Palo Alto
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