[CR]Randonneur bike challenge

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Campagnolo)

Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:35:42 -0800
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Jan Heine" <heine93@earthlink.net>
Subject: [CR]Randonneur bike challenge

I just realized that my post a few days ago could have been misunderstood...

When I said "I invite all doubters with their racing bikes to come to Seattle, and we'll go for a ride."

I did not mean to imply that I would drop the guys on their racing bikes, but that we could go for a ride and swap bikes, and you'd see for yourself. When I ride with friends, we usually don't try to drop each other...

For VBQ, Mark (my other tester) and I often swap bikes mid-ride. Usually, we take a known "baseline" bike and the test bike, so we can compare them back-to-back.

I apologize if I came across as grandstanding. That was not my intention.

Jan Heine, Seattle
Editor/Publisher
Vintage Bicycle Quarterly
c/o Il Vecchio Bicycles
140 Lakeside Ave, Ste. C
Seattle WA 98122
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