In a message dated 7/26/2001 10:02:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, brucerobbins@worldmailer.com writes:
<< but you once threatened to chuck me off the list for mentioning the foot and mouth crisis in the UK because it was off topic.
The list has recently been awash with discussion about aluminium-framed bikes which are also off topic. >>
Hmmm. There are vintage aluminum bikes I think, but no (vintage or otherwise) bikes contracting Hoof in Mouth disease... But I do agree that the Aluminum topic has gone off the path ...I have deleted 98% percent of the Aluminum thread without reading it...
Re: Sheldon's calling a spade a spade (Corso bikes).. I think it is probably unwise to be too blistering in one's assessment of someone else's bike.. I recall in the shop some years ago one of my employees telling a woman that the bike she wanted to have repaired was "not worth it and a crummy bike", etc. only to learn later, after she left in tears that the bike had been given to her by her recently passed away husband. People value things differently... Bikes cause a problem though, as there are definitely bad, unsafe and poorly operating bikes and it is a shame when people acquire an affection for them...
Dale Brown
Greensboro, North Carolina