Re: [CR]Reynolds 531 double-punctuated takeII

(Example: Framebuilders:Bernard Carré)

To: brdstockwell@yahoo.com
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Reynolds 531 double-punctuated takeII
From: "Richard M Sachs" <richardsachs@juno.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 17:24:58 -0500

(replying to post at bottom...) brad until your post, i never noticed the decals' having quote marks or not, so i cannot speak to their place in all this. sorry. e-RICHIE Richard Sachs Cycles No.9, North Main Street Chester, CT 06412 USA http://www.richardsachs.com Tel. 860.526.2059

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:31:57 -0800 (PST) brad stockwell <brdstockwell@yahoo.com> writes:
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> are you asking about the decal 'art' or are use asking
> about the differing tube combos?
> e-RICHIE
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> Richie:
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> First I'm making the statement that genuine Reynolds 531 stickers
> come in two flavors: with quotes and without quotes. Second I'm
> asking: is there any significance to this fact?
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> Can I conclude that if I see a sticker with quotes that the bike
> is from a specific vendor, or that the tubes were purchased in some
> different way, or that such a bike must have been constructed
> between certain dates? The 1974 ad happens to show 531 stickers
> with quotes in association with a boxed set of tubes for a single
> bike with a single set of stickers, as if it was to be purchased by
> a hobby builder (as opposed to the way a factory might buy tubes in
> bulk with a sackful of sticker sets).
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> Or is it just noise? I hear that Hetchins and Hetchin's are held
> in equal esteem.
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> It just so happens that none of the bikes that have passed through
> my hands have had the quotes, and I'm curious about them.
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> From some Vonnegut novel:
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> Fish got to swim, bird got to fly,
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> Man got to ask himself: why, why, why?
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> Brad Stockwell
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> Palo Alto
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> (fish got to rest bird got to land man got to tell himself he
> understand)
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