Well the brown clad Santa made me a happy camper. My '38 Bates will soon be purtied up a bit: a chromed Major Taylor stem, 40's or so NOS Reynolds Randonneur bars, and (take a deep breath) a '36 Sturmey TF in very good condition. Oh yea, and a bottle of 15 year old (OT?) Macallan single malt to help me put it all together. Now there's a vintage for you. Happy Holidays, Craig Montgomery in frozen Tucson
> After having spent a wonderful week with 12 people in my home, I thought
that the departure of 5 of them today would have given me one day to recoup
and prepare for the onslaught of squealing joyous kids opening gifts. Well,
it wasn't to be. It seems Santa has changed colours and moved up delivery by
one day. He turned up at my door at 9.30 AM today, dressed up in brown and
without the beard and/or pot-belly. You couldn't however mistake that it was
jolly old saint nick, as he came laden with gifts! I have only opened a few
boxes so far, but I must have been a truly good boy this year: 20 boxes of
bicycle things from Italy including 3 Masi, 4 Bianchi and lots lots more.
Mike Schmidt has already volunteered to come help unpack.
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> I hope you all enjoy your holidays too. I know that notwithstanding the
frigid temperatures, I'll be spending most of my weekend in the garage.
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> Steven Maasland
> Moorestown, NJ