Re: [CR] To ride or not

(Example: Bike Shops:R.E.W. Reynolds)

From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] To ride or not
References: <20020906172423.28650.qmail@web10901.mail.yahoo.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020906180952.00b07e00@mail.getcoactive.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 15:41:09 -0700

Scott Goldsmith wrote:
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> CR is the Retro list, BOBs are cyclings Shakers, make it simple & beautiful.
> or failing that, make it out cast offs. Another unstated thread is a
> reaction against the over complication of current life. Why make a such
> a simple thing as a bicycle complicated?

This is also what is behind the ground swell of interest in riding fixed gear road bikes currently.

Human beings are a perverse species: Give them perfect shifting 20 speeds and they want no shifting one speeds that don't freewheel!

Chuck "love riding fixed" Schmidt SoPas, SoCal

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