Re: Coppi's turned up handlebars ... Was:[CR]Yo!

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To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, "Morgan Fletcher" <morgan@hahaha.org>
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Subject: Re: Coppi's turned up handlebars ... Was:[CR]Yo!
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:47:10 -0500
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A Vintage Moment

I would like to know when aand how the "reverse and upturned" handlebar revolution evolved.

Last year I bought for my Dad the bike he rode when he was a teenager, a 1937 Planet Jr, a local Toronto builder competing against the giants at CCM.

It killed me to see that the first thing he did was get a wrench out of the tool box and IMMEDIATELY turn up the bars. When I gasped he simply replied "This was the way everyone rode in '37, and this is the way I ride !!!"

Wayne (Whose Dad still sets the pace) Jolly, Toronto Canada


----- Original Message -----
From: Morgan Fletcher
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: Coppi's turned up handlebars ... Was:[CR]Yo!



> More upturned bars:
>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/album45/SI56_29Luglio19PgRrB2
> http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/print/Six_Days_of_Madness_p38?full=1
>
> Morgan
> --
> Morgan Fletcher, morgan@hahaha.org Oakland, CA