Re: [CR]More oldest bike shops

(Example: Framebuilding:Technology)

Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:14:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: "tarik saleh" <tsaleh@rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]More oldest bike shops
To: "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com>, Classic Rendezvous <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: 6667


I <tsaleh@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> > Guthries in SLC which claims to be about as
> old/older
> > than Kopps depending on how you count it. 1907
> under
> > the same name, possibly 1888 or so from the
> founders?

--- "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com> repld:
> Hmmm ... I've been in SLC for 3.25 years now, and
> was not aware of Guthrie's
> history nor was I aware of it's "main" location
> downtown (at 156 E 200
> South, although I've been to their Sugarhouse
> location at 721 E 2100 South)
> ... I'm gonna have to go check it out.

Me too, once I free myself of certain obligations I will get to travel around more here in the soutwest. Let us know what you see there.
> > American Cyclery 1941
> > http://www.americancyclery.com/
>
>
> Great shop, founded by Oscar Juner, currently owned
> by Bradley Woehl.

Yep, this is my favorite shop, I made the WW2 cutoff kind of arbitrary so I could include it. I really enjoyed going into the basement when Bradley just bought it before it was organized. I am still kicking myself I did not take on some of the old track bike projects lumped down there, oh well.


> Uhmmm ... I though you were still at UTK ... Now at
> White Sands???

No way man, white sands is really far south, that was just the testing grounds, I live in Northern New Mexico. They barely have altitude there.

Tarik Sitting pretty at 7500 feet drinking coffee and about to mount the fixie for a spin in to the lab.

Tarik Saleh PO Box 208, Los Alamos, NM 87544 tsaleh at rocketmail dot com Bicycles, bicycles, bicycles: http://www.engr.utk.edu/~tsaleh/bike.html

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