Re: [CR]Raleigh vs. Schwinn : does beat-up mean good ??

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:48:01 -0800
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Raleigh vs. Schwinn : does beat-up mean good ??
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <200503220436.UAA23798@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
References: <200503220436.UAA23798@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>


Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
> Does this necessarily mean that Raleighs were more fun to ride, or
> did Schwinn just sell the bike more frequently to "hang it on the
> wall" type of owners ?? What do you think ??

Perhaps people who walked into a Schwinn dealer and asked for the best- most expensive- bike wound up buying them. Imagine how someone unfamiliar with racing bikes might react to their first flat sew up. I can just about hear such a person upon hearing the drill for fixing a flat say, "screw that" and park the bike in the back of the garage forever.

Kurt Sperry
Bellingham WA