First the preamble, then the goodie for sale: It was indeed a coolish first day of summer for Stockton, CA (85 degrees F.) and the temptation to let the dust on my Unicanitor saddle bite my khaki bottom was just what I needed. So I mounted my 1970 Mondia cyclocross, having dusted it some and vowing to do something if it didn't hit 100. Puffed up very, very suspicious looking Pirelli Speciallisimo Corsa Leggero sewups, which looked just wretched, with shredding sidewalls but still feeling "soft," and it held much to my considerable delight. Then off, parting the vintage fragrance of Lithium oxide grease with Spence Wolf's fingerprints somewhere on them, down the middle of my newly slurried street in keeping with the natives' penchant for avoiding muggers. I peered at my fellows through shuddering bifocals feeling curiously nimble in those Lyotard No.23's and Cristophe/Lapize wrapped around my Vasque boots. It was time to challenge the only pseudo-hill in Stockton, the El Dorado Street overpass where all the low riders raced and the truckers played bowls with their smaller brethren right by the newly minted Filipino historical district, once the heart of skid row, and a statistical pinnacle for such a place for any mid-sized municipality in the country. I groaned worse than my very vintage Regina freewheel when I discovered that the newly installed Simplex Criterium had like Dorian Gray suddenly acted its age. The pulleys, two-piece construction with a solid core floating on a ring of ball bearings, not the sleeves as on the Prestige model, first cracked, then came apart. Praying for gentlemen's traffic, no stops and slumbering crackheads under the overpass, I coasted home. At least the sewups were still with me. What I have to offer for sale is a Simplex Criterium AR637NI, New in Bag (unopened bag with the Simplex insignia), $49 domestic shipping included.
Hon Lee
Stockton, CA