Ann
Since I rode junker bikes as a kid, and I'm too old to appreciate "krate" bikes, an epiphany occurred on a tour across Arizona in 1986. I was 43, riding a new Trek. On the first day a guy rode past me on an orange Paramount, Nervex lugs gleaming in the sun. I was stunned........ Now I have about a dozen bikes with those gleaming lugs. Can't get enough. Sold the Trek.
Pat Moffat Tempe, AZ
-----Original Message----- From: ADP <aphillips9@mindspring.com> Sent: Nov 12, 2003 5:59 AM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]nostalgia bikes and a question for the list....
It seems to me that many list members initial interest in vintage lightweights is based on the bikes remembered from our "youth." We owned or coveted those bikes when they were new and owning them now is just as pleasing. Sometimes those bicycles were high quality and in limited supply and the bikes have great value now, sometimes they were just bicycles with memories and we get to revisit those memories decades later.
What I find interesting is that my interest has gone beyond the bicycles I loved when I was young and I'm much more interested getting information on and collecting older bicycles or bicycles I had no knowledge of as a youth.
How many of the list members here started out with an interest in a specific bicycle or era and gained interest in a wider range of timeline or style based on exposure to all the information we share?
Ann Phillips, Decatur GA