Tom Donahue wrote:
>
> (cut) Chuck Schmidt shamed me
> off-list...
> (cut) Last Sunday I took it out for a 17-mile shakedown cruise.
> After a few tweaks during the week, I did a quick fifty miler this afternoon...
(cut) the old one (RichardSachs) invited me to keep pedaling,
> pedaling, pedaling, without beating me up, leaning into turns, accelerating
> uphill.
See Tom, see that's what I'm talkin' bout! I switch between current and old bikes pretty much every day. It's all good!
(I have to confess here that I tried the same "shaming thing" on e-RICHIE and got nowhere; he doesn't believe in riding old bikes... pssss... whisper... neither of the famous identically restored twin Masi G.C.s he owns has ever turned a wheel.)
Pity...
Chuck Schmidt
SoPas, SoCal