Re: [CR]Now: Mavic vs. Simplex & Campagnolo Was: Derailleur question

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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:49:10 -0800 (PST)
From: "David Feldman" <feldmanbike@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Now: Mavic vs. Simplex & Campagnolo Was: Derailleur question
To: jerrymoos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>, chuckschmidt@earthlink.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <019401c3f758$598ad7c0$efddfea9@mooshome>


Yon don't have to be French--I think that's how TV comedian Ernie Kovacs bought it.
David Feldman
Vancouver, WA


--- jerrymoos wrote:


> I think Hell has been awarded the next Winter
> Olympics.
>
> Didn't the famous and super-cool (for the era)
> French novelist Albert Camus
> expire in a similar poetic manner? Those French,
> they even know how to exit
> in style.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Houston, TX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 6:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Now: Mavic vs. Simplex & Campagnolo
> Was: Derailleur
> question
>
>
> > jerrymoos wrote:
> > >
> > > Wow, I agree with every word Chuck just said
> here. How often does that
> > > happen? Maybe Mavic is the magic middle ground
> on which the Campy fans
> and
> > > the Francophiles can agree.
> >
> > Somebody check if they are ice skating in Hell
> right now.
> >
> > I've always been a big fan of Mavic components and
> owner Bruno Gormand;
> > I have four "Tout Mavic" bikes. My perception of
> Mavic was always as a
> > small "boutique" racing parts company with lots of
> French mojo (their
> > first complete group dates from 1979).
> >
> > That Bruno died in '85 driving his Renault R5
> Turbo on a twisty road and
> > crashing while reaching for the dash board
> cigarette lighter just adds
> > to the French mystique (his wife Madame Cécile
> Gormand and daughter
> > continued running the company till 1990).
> >
> > And it doesn't hurt that almost all of Sean
> Kelly's wins and Greg
> > LeMond's shocking 1989 TdF 8 second win were on
> Mavic equiped bikes.
> >
> > Chuck Schmidt
> > South Pasadena, Southern California
> >
> > .
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