Re: [CR]Now: Show Judging Was: Victims of campy marketing

(Example: Events:Cirque du Cyclisme:2002)

Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 12:47:23 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Now: Show Judging Was: Victims of campy marketing
References: <20030522.153833.2092.25.richardsachs@juno.com>


You'd be welcome to come Richie. Are you going to?

Velo Rendezous Two Thousand and Three... BE THERE!

Chuck Schmidt L.A.

Richard M Sachs wrote:
>
> snipped:
> Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> writes:
> "...If you want pink A'me brake hoods on your 1950 Bianchi
> Folgorissima be my guest!"
>
> e-CHUCKIE
> i would like to be your guest. it sounds like you'd
> be a fun guy to party with.
> e-RICHIE
> chester, ct
>
> On Thu, 22 May 2003 12:23:07 -0700 Chuck Schmidt
> <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> writes:
> > In case all this talk of "factory original" and "period correctness"
> > has
> > anyone on this list thinking that their bike is unworthy of being
> > entered in a contest:
> >
> > None of the shows I have attended were ever judged this
> > stringently.
> >
> > As an example, the Velo Rendezvous show in Pasadena (this year's
> > will be
> > the third) is judged as follows: "Judging of the bikes will be done
> > by
> > the entrants, and their first, second and third choice for best bike
> > at
> > the show will be tallied. Any criteria for judging the bikes can be
> > used, however you cannot vote for your own bike."
> >
> > If you want pink A'me brake hoods on your 1950 Bianchi Folgorissima
> > be
> > my guest!
> >
> > Chuck "period correct for a war baby" Schmidt
> > L.A.
> >
> > Details of 2003 Velo Rendezvous at http://www.velo-retro.com

> >

> > .