[CR]Re: Jan's bivalencies v Ken's bivalencies...

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:33:51 -0500
From: "M_A_Lebr=?ISO-8859-1?B?8w==?=n" <unreceived_dogma@mindspring.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: Jan's bivalencies v Ken's bivalencies...

Hello List:

Let this be my concession speech: as someone relatively new to the list, Ken, JP, Stevan, Bruce, and many others here don't have to show me that they know more than me, that is why I am here, to pick their brains, and for free.

In spite of once being a 125+ mile a week rider for 20+ years, I am someone who considers himself a kindergartener on the topic of bivalent hubs and most any other serious topic subjected to discussions here. Thus, any substantive criticism of ebay or other for sale items that appear on this list contributes to my knowledge base and help to keep me from potentially making a costly purchasing error.

Regarding bivalent hubs, I never knew there was such a thing, or why they would be necessary. Discussion pursuant to Ken's initial comments have so far proved to me that there is much more to this subject than I could have ever imagined.

As to the idea of strapping a wheel or two to my back and the subject of weight, I stopped riding for 5 years and put on 40 lbs of weight. It is only this last summer that I started returning to my old riding ways. Forty lbs, let's see: that's like trying to ride around Central Park with my other 2 Holdsworths strapped to my back. Try it sometime.

Krispy Kremes, anyone?

Michael Lebron New York City 5ft8", on the way to 175 lbs from 213 lbs (May 2002), down to 189 (as of this morning). 24 down, 14 to go...