[CR] The Oscars---My five old, five new---with links

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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:55:42 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter Jourdain" <pjourdain@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CR] The Oscars---My five old, five new---with links
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

My top five:

VINTAGE BIKES:

1. Malvern Star Five Star track/path http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Austria/Australia/MalvernStar.html

2. Fancy-lugged H.R. Morris http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British/Morris_HR_main.htm

3. Sun Manx time trial, with the reinforced bottom bracket. http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British/Sun_bicycles_main.htm

4. Saxon Twintube http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British/Saxon_main.htm

5. Paris Galibier http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British/Paris_Gablier_main.htm

KOF BIKES: (My inclusion of Internet links, below, is meant as informational, not as a “commercial.” ):

1. Anything in stainless steel (possibly a tandem) from David Bohm at Bohemian Cycles http://www.bohemianbicycles.com/

2. Bryan Baylis, especially the Hetchins-curly-style frameset that won honors at the recent North American Hand Built Bicycle Show in Houston. http://vintagecyclestudios.com/

3. Vanilla Bicycles touring bike, just like the lovely sage green one on their website—-best looking tourer I’ve ever seen. http://www.vanillabicycles.com/

4. Trevor Jarvis TJ Cycles Flying Gate Silver Jubilee model with special, one-of-a-kind lugs. http://members.aol.com/polldoug/flyinggate/index.htm

5. New Hetchins Magnum Opus http://www.WorldClassCycles.com

If wishing were having, I’d be an almost-happy (but-still-greedy) man,

Peter Jourdain Whitewater, Wisconsin

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