Just a few additional notes to supplement Steve's report. First, kudos to Steve for staging an excellent event. The route was perfect, the refreshments plentiful and tasty, and the weather sublime.
I wish I had brought my camera, because Steve's back fence was a stunning collection of machinery after the ride. I brought the Stan Pike for show and tell, but there were many competitors for nicest bike. Paul Lee had a lovely black Cinelli, and Angel Garcia had his original cinelli-silver Cinelli parked right next to it, a lovely pair. Angel was using a NOS 1st gen Super Record rear mech, having only about 200 miles on it now. We were kidding him how many dollars per mile that was costing him in eBay value. Pergolizzi's Cotten was set up for time trialing with a single drillium chainring, alloy crank and chainring bolts and no tape on the bars. Naturally, he won the sprint back to the beer. Christine and I were up on the Assenmacher tandem with it's distinctive rectangular keel tube. Christine had never seen lightweight trikes at speed before, and she almost fell off the first time she saw Curtis on his Jackson trike hangin way over the inside on a left turn. She was certain he had suffered some sort on spasm and we should rush to his aid. ("He almost fell off!") After that, my job was to keep the tandem right behind the trikes.
I have to thank Paul and Charley Young for giving me some credibility with the better half, by revealing just how many bikes they own. See dear, my 12 bikes are chicken feed! (She doesn't know about the two in the storage locker, one stashed at my Mother's, or the one Martin Coepland is sending me after a respray at Jacksons). I discoverd the key number is 3-4 bikes, because at that point it's no longer "why do you need X bikes?", but it becomes "why do you need ALL THOSE bikes?" !! Now acquiring more simply involves sneaking the new one in the house, and avoiding wild paint schemes that catch the eye. Hence the reason I have so many dark green and sky blue bikes. You also have to invest in a really good tandem, but that's no hardship.
And finally congrats to Roy Drinkwater, who displayed excellent common sense by aborting his test ride of Steve's High Wheeler. Roy pushed it down the street, attempted to mount, and decided that any sitting on the saddle might do him a serious injury thanks to the bike being too big for him. The kids in the neighbor hood enjoyed his and Ray's forays on the bike.
Thanks again, Steve.
Tom Adams, Shrewsbury NJ
>From: themaaslands@comcast.net
>To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org (Classic Rendezvous)
>Subject: [CR]South Jersey ride report
>Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:06:03 +0000
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>The first South Jersey CR ride took place today and was well attended with 15 people showing up for the ride. After a week of warm temperatures and exceedingly high humidity, we could not have wished for better weather for riding with bright sun and a temperature in the mid-70's. We had people from three different states attending which was quite nice. From New Jersey, we had Angel Garcia (Cinelli SC), Dave Neuhaus (Peugeot?), Ray Homiski (Rickert), Tom Adams and his lovely wife (Assenmacher tandem), Paul Brodek and John Hawrylak (Schwinn world traveler?), from New York there was Rita Lee (Vitus) and her virile husband (Cinelli SC), the omnipotent despot John Pergolizzi (Hurlow built Cotten), from Pennsylvania: Roy Drinkwater (the sole fixed gear rider!), Charlie Young (Holdsworth), Curtis 'Ben Hur' Anthony (Bob Jackson trike) and his co-worker Davis. To bring the average number of wheels per rider to 2, I rode my George Longstaff trike. The ride took us from Moorestown to Vincenttown and back covering a little over 30 miles of mostly back roads through farms and quiet little villages. As a whole, the ride came off without any problems. The sole mechanical glitch came just before the midway point when Curtis decided to do some tricycle jousting, first trying the Ben Hur chariot move on my left rear wheel without success and then succeeding on my right rear wheel taking out 4 spokes at once. He immediately sprung into action to remedy the results of his action. He balanced out the remaining 28 spokes and trued the wheel as best as possible allowing me to ride the rest of the way.
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>Upon our return to Moorestown, there was ample opportunity to talk bikes and get to know one another over refreshments. We were also privileged to get a preview of Dave Neuhaus' children's picture book "His Finest Hour". The book, that will be coming out shortly (ISBN # 1-931382-49-2), is the perfect book for those CR listmembers with smaller children as it tells the story of a child's first bike race. The story and illustrations were written/drawn by Dave and has been published by VeloPress.
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>I look forward to the next CR ride.
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>Steven Maasland
>Moorestown, NJ
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