In a message dated 11/10/2004 12:06:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, ealbert@bellatlantic.net writes:
<< I'm just curious Dale. Would you exclude my 1959, absolutely seamless, custom made Les Ephgrave fillet brazed track bike? He was, as I understand it, esteemed not just for fancy lugs, but for impeccable quality.>>
Absolutely. Doesn't deserve another CR consideration. Send it to me immediately.
<< On the other hand I have, over the years, taken various Italian lugged bikes in for respray jobs after race crashes. I remember once, I brought a Rossin in to Tom Kellogg. Although he did the paint work....he thought the build work was, excuse the expression, piss-poor and mass produced. It did race will however. >>
OK, that does it. All Italian bikes are hitherto banned.
Let's see. We can let the Rossin stay on as a KOF. Piece of crap but we love it, right? And the Ephgrave stays on topic 'cause they are extinct! See? There's a way to get past the listmeister every time! (Actually, you just have to start talking about something off topic and start a thread, THEN say you know it's OT but just wanted to mention it...)
Al the above said tongue-in-cheek so we don't get too silly~absorbed in these attempts to find ourselves/the meaning of life/truth/God/that perfect Confente.
I still say we are all pretty much on the same agenda, just confused on the tiddly bits.
Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC