To Tom and all,
I too share your position, completely. There is no sense in putting our "nose the air" too far.
Wish you well,
Guy Apple Sunnyvale, CA
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Sanders <tsan7759142@comcast.net> Sent: Apr 25, 2005 7:38 AM To: ternst1@cox.net Cc: "Classicrendezvous@Bikelist.Org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: [CR]Re: Should we use vintage terms or dilute our passion?
Ted,
With all due respect, I fail to see where someone should be censored for
using a term different from that which you use. I also fail to see how not
using vintage terms dilutes our passion. Perhaps it dilutes yours, I feel
it does no harm to mine. Fact is, if someone feels comfortable using a
reasonably correct term that we all know and share the meaning of, it hurts
no one.
Perhaps it is just my cussed independence that makes me eschew line dancing
or even pace lines, for that matter, but I'll be darned if I want to part of
anything where other folks prescribe my methods of expression to the extent
that I must be in lock step with them.
Celebrate diversity! I'm darn glad the guy is out riding his bike! Let him
call it a fixie if he chooses. Some of us sometimes refer to "Campy" parts,
to rather than Campagnolo, but just because others would do it differently
is no reason for them to change unless they should choose to do so.
Censoring folks is all too easy...let us appreciate them instead.
Tom Sanders
Lansing, Mi