Re: [CR]Zeus

(Example: Events:Cirque du Cyclisme:2002)

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 03:55:51 +0200
From: "renaissance-cycles" <info@renaissance-cycles.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Zeus
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org



----- Original Message -----
From: renaissance-cycles
To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]Zeus



> BTW:
>
> Labadie the old Zeus importer of Anglet of Southern France was like family
> with the Zeus clan.
> I was told of the many stories of his buying trips when going over the
> boarder..........At time as many
> as 3 time a day! WOW!......In order for him to ge the goods into France duti
> free, he would pay off the
> boarder guards or smuggle the stuff into France from as like someone else I
> know, slamming through
> the boarder.
>
> He reminds me of the time when dealing with a Dutch shop in
> the early 80s! This guy
> Luke would be flying through the boarder to avoid the boarder guards! One
> day Cecile was with us when
> this guy slammed though the Belgium boarder on a small side road at about
> 100 MPH!....I said ''HEY!''
> the boarder guy is flagging you down are you going to stop! He looked at his
> friend and laughed and looked at me
> and said HA! HA!.....Look at his car do you think he's going to catch me in
> that!?!?!?!
> Oh!........Sh*&! I grabber what ever I could as like Cecile on the other
> side....Damn!......Looks like this is going
> to be one hairy buying trip! On the way back we took a detour........I said
> why are we gonig this way, His reply!
> We have to because they will be waiting for me when going back the way we
> came into Belgium!
> Vroooooooooooooom..............Off we went!........Geeze! This was living
> the show of the Dukes of hazard!
> But it was real life........................but for bike parts!
>
> Geeze these guys were serious about beating the system.
>
> BC
> Baron C..................And the gang!!
> Renaissance cycles,
> Eindhoven Holland!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
> Cc: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 10:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Zeus
>
>
> > LouDeeter@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > A Google search on "Nicolas Arrequi" suggests that the correct
> > > spelling is probably "Nicoloas ArreGui"
> > >
> > > I have no idea to tell you the truth. My source was a pamphlet written
> by Richard Hallett, then of Albuquerque. I also see that Richard Hallett
> was quoted on the CR page under Zeus where he says the founder was Luis
> Arregui, not Nicholas Arrequi. So, if someone knows for sure, let me know &
> I'll correct the entry in the Used Bike Buyers Guide. Lou Deeter, Orlando
> FL
> >
> >
> > My Zeus catalogs state:
> >
> > ...............
> > . 1926 .
> > . PATENTES .
> > . N. ARREGUI .
> > ...............
> >
> > Chuck Schmidt
> > South Pasadena, Southern California

> >

> > .