There is a Flyer candy bar with the same logo. Deee-liscious!!!
Carl Derrick Queens NY
>From: Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net
>To: OROBOYZ@aol.com
>CC: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: Re: [CR]LIBERTAS
>Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:48:17 -0800
>
>In total agreement Dale. I tried to get Grant to go with an airplane
>theme after the clipper ship and the sheep. A name like the "FLYER"
>with the stubby Gee Bee Racer or Biplane or Wright Bros plane on the
>head badge. Wouldn't FLYER be a great name for a road bike?
>
>Chuck
>
>OROBOYZ@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Grant told me about this idea a while ago and while I like the name, I
>vote
> > for a continued search. This is partly because I am an old fart and I
>think
> > of all Libertas bikes I have already seen when I hear the Libertas name.
>Yes,
> > most younger folks are not going to make that connection but I just
>guess I
> > am not crazy about using someone else's old name, even if it is defunct.
>Yes,
> > it will be essentially a model rather than a make, but it just doesn't
>ring
> > clean and true to me.
> > Agonizing over names of stuff is tough though!
> > Hey, what about "DX5100"?
> > No? Now.... I kinda like that. (not!)
> >
> > Dale Brown
> > Greensboro, North Carolina