as someone who has maintained a website that probably dwarfs the cr site for 10 years now, i can totally understand dales burnout - ive burned out myself twice now, and only a recent total revamp of messengers.org to make it much much easier to deal with and update, and a passing-off of some of the material there, brought me back from the edge of putting my baby up for adoption.
fortunately, there are more and more sites and pages cropping up with much more specific focus than the cr site - sites/pages devoted to individual countries, framebuilders and component marques.
im of the opinion that these do a terrific service not only to the vintage bike community (as they provide more in-depth resources on more specific subjects), but to people like dale as well (as they take some of the very broad load off of the shoulders of someone running a clearinghouse type resource)
the value of the cr site is now, to me, not so much that it has everything pictured all in one place - but as a general resource, providing links to other sites with more detailed information. a jumping-off point, if you will.
regardless - kudos to *anyone* taking the time to put up a page devoted to their own little corner of devotion in the world of our beloved vintage bikes!
-joel
>In a message dated 2/25/2005 11:28:46 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>Akimbo71@gmx.net writes:
>
><< But lately the updates have been getting less and less.
> I know there are plenty of bikes out there that are very interesting and
>nice and there are just as many vacancies in the bike lists of Dale's site.
> Take Wayne Binghams gold EDCO headset. Why is there not a copy of it under
>EDCO? Or those copper Campy Brakes? Or of more Gitanes? Or? Or? Or?
>
> What is the reason for this?
> >>
>
>Dear Kim:
>
>I am sure those who are longtime readers of this list and who are familiar
>with the CR web site history intuitively realize that my interest in spending
>the long hours to update and expand the site has run out. I already
>have spent a
>ridiculously excessive amount of time on it, the e-mail list and the
>Cirque...... any rational person would have given up it up a long
>time ago. I have
>HUGE backlog of material to be added but simply not the time nor
>inclination to
>do it beyond the snail's pace that I currently proceed with.
>
>As Peter Naimann suggests, any of you are more than welcome to develop your
>own sites and I will link to them. Though it may seem so, it ain't so easy. I
>point out the demise of other very nice sites such as Peter Grenader's Allegro
>site, the PX10 site, etc. These were of extremely modest size and scope
>relative to the CR site yet they seem to have succumbed to "owner
>burn out." Huge
>kudos to Morgan and the Wool jersey, that has been a very enjoyable experience
>for all of us, but I hasten to mention that it is a different concept and
>requires significantly less authorship.
>
>So... maybe at some time I will hand over the CR site to some other
>masochist? Or perhaps other sites will spring up and provide that next level?
>
>I appreciate the interest though and await the next bright star on the
>horizon of vintage bike lore...
>
>Dale Brown
>Greensboro, NC
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