Re: [CR]British derailleurs...and KOF efforts

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Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:13:21 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]British derailleurs...and KOF efforts
References: <380-22005822133329495@M2W065.mail2web.com>


Peter Kohler wrote:
> (snip)
> Finally, I have given up trying to convince you lot that you can really
> have a super "lightweight racing" experience with a hub gear. Most of you
> hear Sturmey-Archer and think of a Raleigh Sports or a DL-1 roadster. A
> Sports with an AW hub has as much in common with an RRA with an FC hub as
> an AO-8 has with a PY-10. It's a distinction one enjoys demonstrating to
> the spandex lads on their Litespeeds and Colnagos which an RRA with an FC
> can eat for breakfast.

I always burst out laughing when I read this Walter Mitty, Snoopy and the Red Baron stuff on the list. You guys crack me up!!!!!

Thanks for the laugh,

Chuck "Spandex™ Lad" Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

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