Re: [CR]NOW: this horse is different:was:This horse is dead

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To: rmrose@toast.net
Cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]NOW: this horse is different:was:This horse is dead
From: "Richard M Sachs" <richardsachs@juno.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 10:34:16 -0500

snipped: <rmrose@toast.net> writes: "What I mean is that Lance may care about grams..." <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> writes: "Lance Armstrong cares about grams!"

i cared about grams in the 70s. but i don't remember why, where, or with whom. insert smiley face. e-RICHIE by the time they got to chester...

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 09:41:15 -0500 "Richard Rose" <rmrose@toast.net> writes:
> Chuck,
> What I meant, and what I thought e-richie meant was that this has
> nothing to
> do with what the pro's "want" to ride. What I mean is that Lance may
> care
> about grams, but he would still have won the last 4 tours on a
> slightly
> heavier bike. I understand they do not want to ride lugged steel
> bikes, but
> that does not mean they could not still use them & win.
> Richard Rose (Toledo, Ohio)
> P.S. I think this horse is slightly different
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
> To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 6:21 PM
> Subject: [CR]NOW:This horse is dead WAS:Omega/Gillott, what if
>
>
> > Richard Rose wrote:
> > >
> > > Pardon me for butting in here but I think what e-richie meant
> was that
> there
> > > was still room in the pro peleton for a lugged steel bike but
> that the
> > > marketplace prevents such a thing from happening. Correct me if
> I am
> wrong
> > > richie.
> > > After all, what would happen in the (bicycle) marketplace if
> Lance won
> his
> > > 5'th consecutive tour next year on a beautiful lugged steel
> creation,
> albeit
> > > with a set of Hyperon's, a threadless stem & STI shifters? Chaos
> I tell
> you,
> > > Chaos!
> >
> > Richard, we pretty much beat this same horse to death a month or
> two
> > ago.
> >
> > No there is not still room in the pro peleton for lugged steel
> bikes.
> > Nothing in the marketplace prevents such a thing (remember
> Litespeeds
> > painted as Treks?), it's that the pros don't want to ride them in
> the
> > peleton. This has nothing to do what I want to ride, only the
> facts
> > about what the current situation is in professional road racing.
> >
> > Lance Armstrong cares about grams!
> >
> > Chuck Schmidt
> > SoPas, SoCal
> >
> >
> > .