Re: [CR]Pinnicle of the vintage lightweight era?

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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:05:16 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Pinnicle of the vintage lightweight era?
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Brandon Ives wrote:
>
> For all you folks who want me to define why I think things before 1960
> are "classic." read Richard Sachs post again. It's damn close to my
> feelings too, I just think it happened ten years early. Also alot of
> people are saying it's in the racing heyday, I agree. The racing heyday
> for the rest of the world (aka Europe) was in the 50's.

Yes, the Coppi-Bartali rivalry... but you have left out Merckx!!! late-60s and early 70s, and the 80s with Hinault... jeeze, what about Girardengo in the 20s, and... yikes... Gregie, and Anquetil...

Euro-racing heyday??????

Chuck Schmidt