I have a slightly different take on this. I am engaged in several hobbies that involve collecting; bicycles being one. The odd thing is that I am not driven to collect anything except ephemera: catalogs, books, posters, owner's manuals etc... Weird right?
Jamie Swan - Northport, N.Y.
bikenut wrote:
> Mark,
> I have an excellent condition original copy that came to me (via Lorne
> Sheilds)
> years ago without the dustcover and signature....$175 seemed like a good
> deal
> then...and now too. Ted Ernst gave me an original dustcover to complete it.
> It's
> very interesting reading. Over the last 9 years or so I have easily
> purchased dozens
> X dozens of olde and new books related to cycling...in English, French,
> Dutch,
> Italian, German and on. I also have somewhere around 1200 cycling magazines
> nearly all from the 1930's-1980's....700 or so are 'Cycling' and it's
> various iterations
> from the teens through the 1970's......First Editions of Frank Patterson,
> epic volumes
> by Chany, hard and soft covers of the 50th, 75th & 100th Anniversary
> Editions of
> American Bicyclist, most every cycling related coffee table book, shopworn
> Brown
> Bros. catalogs, cartons and boxes of brochures, handbooks, manuals, reprints
> and on
> and even a couple hundred or more (actually way more) sportscaster cycling
> cards
> from 1976-77 and Panni cards from 1970-71. Where does it stop? Oh, and I own
> a few bicycles too! We're all a little crazy, some just a bit more than
> others.
>
> Once this Vintage Bicycle passion is set there is no going back...why fight
> it?? I own a
> more than fully equipped/stocked Bike Shop but I'm the only customer. My
> garage(s)
> are a diorama of Cycling. Compared to collecting cars, ski-boats or x-wives
> this is a
> very reasonable hobby/passion/obsession. That's my story and I'm sticking
> to it!
>
> Matt "still has my first Colnago and first wife" Gorski
> Bikenut Shore, CA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Poore <rauler83@yahoo.com>
> To: Tom Sanders <tsan7759142@attbi.com>; <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:28 PM
> Subject: [CR]More on The Fastest Bicycle Rider Alive book & my butt is
> toast!
>
> > Ok, if I were a real man I would take all that was coming to me as well as
> the blame, but that aside I am going to blame each and everyone of you list
> members. At the Cirque I balked at $35 for a first edition of Hearts of
> Lions and now I just dropped $760 on a book and that doesn't include
> shipping. I was a rational thinking person just three years ago. What
> happened say ye? I got involved with Dale Brown and all his cronies. There
> was a time when I would have to think long and hard about a second bike
> purchase, now with 10 or more in the basement and more on the way I don't
> think about costs, no I sure don't, don't even think about where the money
> will come from. Banks have lots of money and there are banks on every
> corner I tell you. I have seen them.
> >
> >
> > Classic content......nuts about old bikes and stuff related to them. How
> many days 'til the next Cirque?
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark, don't bid against me 'cause my mind ain't right, Poore
> >
> >
> >
> > Slatyfork, WV today and not sure tomorrow if my wife ever catches wind of
> this one
> >
> >
> >
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