It is a shame that we didn't have such a category for last year's Cirque. My Viking "Patinator" was a shoo-in.
Charlie Young
Honeybrook, PA
> We had the "ugly juju" going on for the monthly Rose Bowl
> vintage ride a few years ago. After everyone had showed
> up on their beautiful vintage lightweights month after
> month it was fun to show up on something with what we will
> call "patina".
> Brian Ignatin has a Rickert from Ted Ernst that spent its
> life next to the Pacific Ocean; very rusty but
> mechanically 100% in function. I have a similar '60
> Legnano Gran Premio. Perfect mechanically but visually
> challenged. And totally original.
> We call 'em "Old Soldiers" and they're a real blast to
> ride in a amongst a group of perfectly restored vintage
> lightweights. In a totally perverse way of course ;)
>
> And the "Old Soldiers" were welcomed as a catagory at last
> year's Velo Rendezvous bike show in Pasadena.
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> L.A.