[CR]BVVW Annual Ride Trip Report

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From: "Mike Schmidt" <mdschmidt@patmedia.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:16:38 -0400
Subject: [CR]BVVW Annual Ride Trip Report

Good day to all,

It was a great day to be in Brooklyn, NY for the annual Brooklyn Velodrome Vintage Wheelmen bike ride. Sunshine skies, the smell of bar b que grills cooking food, ethic music being played, and an enclosed 3.3 mile loop in one of New York City's nicest parks. At 10:00 AM we met at the Grecian Shelter on the south side of The Park. It is an open limestone/ marble building of columns with a roof-very Athens!. It also served as our lap marker. We rode laps of varying speeds for about 2.5 hours. At 12:30 we decided that passing the bar-b-que grills was too much temptation so a half a dozen of us exited the park and rode over to Johnny Mac's restaurant for lunch. Perfect location, great burgers, outside dining, nice breeze blowing, $20,000 worth of vintage bikes parked within inches of our tables (this is Brooklyn) and the endless parade of the local residents to people watch. It was fun and if you want to see some pix taken with my crappy cellphone camera, go to wool jersey and check out Mike Schmidt Bicycles and look for the BVVW Folder.

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/BVVW-Meetings?page=1

Some of the riders that showed up were lurkers on the CR list whom we never met so this was a great opportunity to finally meet them. Well, here is who showed and what they rode: I may need some help here:

Rider Bike John Pergolizzi Confente Ray Homiski Rivendell Atlantis Mike Schmidt Rauler Nino Hellman 1964 Legnano Josh Berger Mid 60's Cinelli with kewl mudguards Eddie Albert Chrome Paramount with chrome mudguards ? Rivendell Quickbeam Steve Klein Pogliaghi Bill Vojitech Titanium Seven (at least it was one of the old ones) ? Black, late 1980's Masi GC ? Bridgestone RB1 ? Rivendell Peter Storey ?

One last item, just before lunch, we met a women on a vintage ladies Frejus. It was none other than Liz Holtzman, former Manhatten Borough President. Before she met the group, she thought she just had an old bike. Now she knows the value of what she now rides

Mike Schmidt
Stirling, NJ