Oops. Done in once again by a long URL. Go to http://photos.yahoo.com/
Tom Adams, Shrewsbury NJ
>From: "Thomas R. Adams, Jr."
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: Ann Phillips & Mystery man + Funky Bike defined ( was Re: [CR]Re:Photo Caption
>Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 22:14:34 +0000
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>Given my past record, I won't try to identify anyone else in these pictures. So could someone please identify this mystery gentleman? He was at Cycles De Oro as the Saturday Tea Party ride returned, but apparently wasn't riding (no bike clothes). In the following picture he is talking to Ann PHILLIPS ( the eye candy with the cool tatoos and the funkadelic Trek.)
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>http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/thomasthomasa/vwp?.dir=/2003+Cirque&.dnm=Ann+PHILLIPS+(!)+Trek.jpg&.src=ph
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>BTW, as the person who named Harvey S. as Funkmeister, I'll defer to his definition of funk, but the original meaning was not derogatory, nor the same as ratty. A funky bike isn't a pristine meuseum piece, nor one with a distinguished pedigree or the Nth degree of workmanship. Those bikes have mojo and they invoke reverent appreciation. But a funky bike is a bike that is unusual or forgotten with a touch of the bizarre (Harvey Sachs' Sears is a perfect example), or else so heavily modified by it's rider to reflect his personal ideal bike that it draws crowds and comments from other riders. A funky bike makes you slap your knee and tell your buddy "Get a load of this one!". Above all else, a funky bike must be a good rider. Only bikes that are fun to ride can be funky.
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>Taking Ann's Trek in the pic as an example, it's a frame from an underapreciated maker, used but still pretty (not ratty), built up with a varied assortment of parts and is an excellent rider. This is a text book example of a funk machine. Now if only Ann had carefully explained how each part was expertly hand selected to maximize function and light weight ("I find early 80's Dura Ace, while solid, to weigh too much compared to the 600 series equivalent" instead of "It's what I had lying around and I hope not everyone is laughing at the parts"), this would have been a prize winner funky bike. The quality of the narration from the rider is an important part of the funk quotient.
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>Audax bikes and loaded touring bikes have almost always got the real funk due to the efforts of the owners to make them perfect. This is where the "funk" in "function" comes from. Fenders are a funk touch. Fenders with home made mud flaps are double funky. Touched up paint chips are real funk. Pristine unchipped paint ain't. Get out and ride that thing. Mud is funky only on the day acquired, after that it's just dirt that's rusting your bike. I hope this helps.
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>Tom (trying every day to live up to the funk ideal) Adams, Shrewsbury NJ
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> >From: BobHoveyGa@aol.com
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> >To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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> >Subject: [CR]Re: Photo Caption
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> >Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 16:23:58 EDT
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> >Tom... I wondered about that caption myself... but I saw the turquoise
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> >Rivendell in the background and assumed the guy Ann was talking to was John
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> >Price and that's why you named the photo that....
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> >So then who is the guy Ann's talking to?
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> >Bob Hovey
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> >Columbus, GA
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> >Original Message:
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> > >laughed at my mishmosh of Shimano 600 parts on my Trek 730 (who was
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> > >"Ann Price" on a Trek 715?) and the best part is it rides really
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> > >super.
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> > >Ann Phillips, Decatur GA
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> >Oops! 1,000 pardons, I knew I'd butcher names trusting to memory. Mea
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> >Culpa. Next time, it's a notebook roster with names and bikes. Of course,
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> >that's also what you get for beating me in the sprint. ;-) Now are you more
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> >upset with getting the name or the bike wrong?
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> >Tom Adams, Shrewsbury NJ
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