Just a couple of minor notes: 1) The real highlight was a wonderful 27" frame Albert Eisentraut that showed up; apparently Wayne had helped the fellow pull the groupo together. Was that original paint? Just great looking, with carefully thinned lugs and all the AE detailing.
2) "But officer, that's a lady (who's) not my wife!" Beloved Spouse (Susan) was not involved in the swap meet ...Leslie Tierstein, a wonderful bike program supporter in the area, agreed to be the Chief Financial Officer -- and also has a great way of persuading folks not to buy bikes that are too long in the top tube for them. She'd be miffed to be taken for my wife! :-)
2) These "friends" of mine, like Marty and Larry and Wayne kept me so busy that I didn't see any of the good stuff. Darnit!
Harvey Sachs
At 11:34 4/15/2001 -0400, Martin O. Walsh wrote:
>Hello CR list, List member Harvey Sachs and his wife Sue
>organized,advertised and orchestrated a local benefit swap for
>Washington(DC)Area Bicycle Association-( W.A.B.A.). and Pedals for
>Progress.15 % of the sales price went to the 2 local non-profits.List
>member Larry Osborne drove in from 4 hours away in West VA. to help
>stimulate sales of the vintage parts.List member Tom Wittkop was spotted
>at the swap and Wayne Bingham's "early bird catches the worm" was there
>with cash in hand.The number of vintage parts was very small in relation
>to all the bicycles and parts at the swap.I bought a set of mis-matched
>Campagnola Record tubulars and found a Regina 5 speed freewheel(Thanks
>Harvey) to complete the 1970 Colnago Super project Wayne Bingham did for
>me.Wayne scored a brand new vintage Campagnola Aero water bottle and
>cage along with two boxes of Japanese parts and 2 wheelsets and several
>open "C" Campagnola straight skewers.At $182.00(e-Bay price) each I'd
>say Wayne had a bang up day at this swap.TED what's the story with the
>OPEN "C" Campagnola skewers?Yours truly,Martin Walsh in Vienna,VA. P.S.
>I'm psyched for the May 5-6th "Cirque"!