Ted,
Remember organic material can make excellent padding.
Yours in Cycling,
Gilbert Anderson
North Road Bicycle Company
519 W North St
Raleigh, NC 27603
USA
toll free: 800-321-5511
local: 919-828-8999
e-mail: cyclestore@aol.com
On Jun 11, 2005, at 1:36 PM, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org
wrote:
> -LARGE brown roaches (both living and dead) identical
> to the ones that have infested South East Texas. The
> things are HUGE, have wings, and fly!!!
>
> -Giant red "fire ants" (alive) that I only recall
> seeing in St. Louis as a 5-year-old child,
>
> -a dead dragon-fly from a seller in Georgia,
>
> -many of those little "ear-wigs" that have the pincher
> on the front. I find the majority of these to be
> hiding between cogs in old filthy freewheels. They
> also hide in the cracks below old leather saddles,
> inside of seat posts, and down in the dark depths of
> old frame seat tubes.
>
> I think if the buyer is going to do the seller the
> favor of buying his/her item and on top of that pay
> for shipping, the seller should at least keep the
> insects out of the box.
>
> Ted E. Baer
> "trying to work the bugs out"
> Palo Alto, CA