snipped/cut: <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> wrote: Well let me put it this way Richie, no matter how cool you might be, if your bike wasn't set up, YOU were not cool! And where are your contributions to the proper bike set up thread? I know you have set up more than a few bikes? --------- --------- okay xerox-man, here're my recollections... you raced. you had a cat 2 license on the road AND on the track. you raced the natz. you raced superweek. you raced s'ville and fitchburg, and the others. if you did a time trial, you used a silk track jersey, tucked in, because skinsuits were not invented. you raced. you had a maillard kit and "did" your gears in the parking lot before the race. you took your white anklets and folded a perfect 1cm cuff at the top. you raced. you hand-bent the curves into the qr's and the shift levers BEFORE they came that way stock. you didn't use h'bar plugs; you tapped the ends of the bars and threaded in those "useless" campagnolo crank dustcaps. you raced. you subscribed to cycling weekly, aka "the comic" as well as to international cycle sport. you took the anon- dizing off the cinelli stem and the campagnolo crankset and seat piller and polished these weekly with wadding cloth because ics parts were not in the mainstream yet. you raced. you raced with a ta bottle cover on your ta bottle even if the contents weren't hot. you raced on 28 spoked wheels. you raced on clement campionissimo setas-the best ever road tire. you raced on artie-built wheels if you were supremely cool. you only raced with nr 1037a track pedals-on the ROAD. you never said "campy". you always said "campagnolo".
plus you did alot of the stuff chuckie wrote about!
e-RICHIE
chester, ct