In a message dated 5/6/03 1:52:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
rauler83@yahoo.com writes:
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> After nearly everyone left the Cirque and was heading home I wheeled my new
> purchase the 1983 Pauley that I had just purchased from Tom Sanders that
> morning towards the door. I stopped to talked with Marty W. and then Larry
> B. To make a long story short Larry made me an offer I could not refuse. He
> told me it was for Jill and would find a place in the museum. It would be
> ridden from time to time and to me that is very important. In the short I
> feel very lucky to have owned that bike in only for 9 hours. Larry, I will
> be up at some point to see the Pauley and the other impressive bikes in
> your collection soon. Mark, still on a Cirque high, PooreSlatyfork, WV
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Thanks The thing that caught my eye was the inlays on the head tube and tob tube. Jill has a weakness for those and please rest assured, she and I will get to ride it at special events. She does not wall art as well as kinetic sculptur e. Tom, Mark, and Marty are all in this history.
While I know that many guys walk out of the barbershop and whip out the comb to re-do their doo, I left the Pauley as it was and installed a very old and used (but clean) roll of yellow Benotto on behalf of tom. I will get the seat back from Marty and give him another ike it or find one to use.
Thanks everyone for your contributions. As much as I like the Pauley and it was the best 'hard good' I've ever taken home from a show, it was way behind the memories and kindled human interactions.
Jill will want to know the history. hopefully I'll show her the bike at Proteus Thursday (It's 'stump larry' night) before she reads all this upon her return from family matters in upstate NY. Harvey and I brought a few of her bikes but there were no bites. We will be listing them soon and hopefullly harv and I can help her list and move some to helpthe Proteus project.
Thanks for the show, everyone
Larry Black
College Park, Md