nice intro!
herzlich wilkommen! kim klakow berlin as well
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> Hello Classicrendezvousers, been keeping a silent hand for too long so
> I'll do an intro, hopefully it's not too long. I think it's great that the
> world can become even smaller with a few words from fellow cycling
> enthusiasts, keep up the great topics.
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> I suppose it all started on my fifth Christmas when Santa gave me a
> gold-metallic, single-speed, bicycle fitted with the usual seventies,
> banana-seat, and chromed chopper-bars. Happier than Rudolph with his
red-nose, I
> roared up and down our street the entire day. As my legs grew longer, my
> paper-route became longer, so I saved all the Canadian Rupees I had and
found
> myself a nice gold-metallic, Apollo road-bike, equipped with the average
> Suntour group. At the time I was living with my mother and sister, in a
little,
> beach-house about a block away from the Pacific Ocean, in the hilly town
> of White Rock. Overlooking the balcony were the scattered San Jaun islands
> on the south-east side, the tree-lined Gulf islands to the south-west,
deep
> in the background, the snow-capped Washington, peninsula mountains, and
> forty-five minutes north lay Vancouver. My elementary school was a thirty
> minute bus ride with the local, B.C., transit system. After frequently
waiting,
> and spending my
> junk-food change for the bus ride, I thought mmm, I could ride my
> two-wheeler in about the same time. As the years rolled by, I no longer
had to
> push my bike up those steep hills, and had more time to explore the local
> riding terrain, like High street or Oxford street. One weekend on the
> boob-tube I saw some cyclists flying down mountain passes at a hundred or
so,
> pedalling crazy distances in a few hours, and was blown away. Man theyre
tough
> cowboys, one rider had a big 7-eleven sponsor on his jersey, a Canadian
> from Ontario, so I became more attached to the sport and my bike. Decided
it
> was time for longer rides and more hill-climbing, while doing this I met
> more local riders, who helped improve the young kid. Ice hockey took up a
lot
> of my time but helped my cycling skills, I was slowly becoming a young
> roadie. Steve Bauer was having a good year and I was having fun flying up
and
> down those local hills. Eighth grade was just about to start, which meant
> lots of new faces,
> apparently roadies werent so cool at my new high school, so I traded in
> my machine for a chrome GT bmx. I equipped it with the usual high-end
> components, Greg Lemond and Steve Bauer were out, there were cooler dudes
now
> like Edi Fiola, soaring outta bowls, manoeuvring 360s and landing back in
> the bowls. I started making half-pipes, quarter pipes, launching over
jumps
> into the ocean, with tubes tied around my handle bars, and raced inside
> big, lit-up barns, with quad jumps, table-tops, big cornered burms, etc.
Then
> I discovered gasoline, it smoked outta my exhaust pipe about as quick as
> cash went into my tank. That 62 beetle was one of the lowest bugs in town,
> every policeman around knew my name, and they usually didnt say hi or ask
> for my telephone number. After forking out too many rupees I decided, it
was
> time to invest in two wheels again, fired up that porsche-indian-red,
> low-rider, gunned it to Henrys cycle, spotted a beat-up used 70s
Italian,
> frame and fork with
> no name on it, left the lugs white, razor bladed the tubes, fitted it
> with early eighties 600 and dura-ace, thought it looked relatively racey
with
> chromed-out tubes, and started riding with the local roadies again. To be
> contd...........
>
> Dustin Nordhus, Berlin, Germany
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