Re: [CR]what's in a name? (bicycle brands)

(Example: Framebuilders:Tony Beek)

From: <ABikie@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:50:22 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]what's in a name? (bicycle brands)
To: benkamenphoto@nyc.rr.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


Now it's names! In the 60's we found a drawer in the back of our old shop withg bike name badges. Mead, Ranger, Rixe, Columbia, ..... I took a few German ones

'Puky Fahrt" - still got 'em, somwwhere. Centurion marketed the 'Clic' and quickly changed it after a brief intro in the early 80's 'Tease' was a tough one to sell in the '72 boom. we pronounced it 'Tee-AH-say' which helped only a tad,

Blackburn started to call their hydration pack the 'wetback' and changed it to wetPack after a very brief period.

Larry 'too long smelling patch glue' Black Mt airy, Md