Re: [CR]Coincidence or conspiracy?

From: "Aldo Ross" <swampmtn@siscom.net>
To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <20010628115614.1988.cpmta@c009.snv.cp.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Coincidence or conspiracy?
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:46:41 -0400

Hi Bruce,

I just checked my local dump, but failed to find even one Parkes bike.

I did find a Hetchins', but decided to leave it there, since the apostrophe was in the wrong place.

Aldo Ros's
Monroe Municipal Dump, Ohio

----- Original Message -----
From: brucerobbins@worldmailer.com
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 7:56 AM
Subject: [CR]Coincidence or conspiracy?

> Something really strange is going on in the quite Scottish region of Tayside...
>
> The same week-very possibly the same day-that I unearthed a comparatively uncommon F. C. Parkes Lightweight bike at my local dump in Dundee, another collector fished an F. C. Parkes frameset out of his local dump in Perth just 25 miles away.
>
> This is too great a coincidence to be mere chance: these are the only two Parkes Lightweights I know of in my part of the world. Is there some global conspiracy to flood the market with Parkes Lightweights and artificially depress their value?
>
> Listees, whether you're in the US, OZ or Japan, check your local dumps.
>
> Must go-Elvis is at the front door.

>

> Bruce