Thanks to all of you for coming to the San Diego Vintage Ride. It's great to
see old friends again and make some new ones.Regina and I had a
fantastically good time... Keep the Margaritas coming . Hope to see you all
again soon.
Sterling Peters
San Diego,Ca., 92102
>
> Matty and all,
>
> It was in fact a "Sterling" event. Weather was excellent, although the
> typical afternoon headwind(actually a strong crosswind) on the Silver
> Strand in Coronado was testing. Tried to keep it moving along there to
> make the tight schedule to meet the 12:30 Ferry accross San Diego Bay and
> cut it pretty close.
>
> Rode my tandem with my friend Carlos (my new help around the shop) who is
> new to tandem riding. Course was too flat and windy to ever get into the
> big ring. Need some room and a good downhill to use that 60 x 12 to it's
> full effect.
>
> Sterling and Regina put on a fantastic gathering, the food was outstanding
> and the videos really added some class and good side entertainment, almost
> as good as watching everyone power down Regina's super Marguritas. I
> generally don't drink that kind of ahcohol, but since they were so good, I
> even had one myself. A tour of their vintage house in Golden Hill was
> worth the trip even without the ride.
>
> First class event, first class people. It just doesn't get any better than
> this! Thanks Sterling and Regina and everyone who showed up.
>
> Brian Baylis
> La Mesa, CA
> The diet starts today! Start to eat right, drink MORE water, ride more
> than once a month. The coffee and doughnut diet I've been on for the last
> 10 years is gotta stop.
>
> -- "Matthew Gorski" <bikenut@verizon.net> wrote:
> Greetings All,
> I wanted to thank Sterling Peters and his lovely wife Regina
> for hosting a wonderful ride on Sunday. I didn't count but my
> memory is there were about 2 dozen riders including 3 tandems.
>
> There was a wide selection of classic bicycles... Eisentrout,
> Cinelli, Colnago, Masi(s), Guerciotti, Paramount(s), Baylis(s),
> Pogliaghi, Raleigh, Bianchi, Mercian and many others! Everything
> from fixed gears to tandems.
>
> Great refreshments before and a BBQ after...A DVD was running off
> to the side with Coppi, Anquetil, Merckx and then recent TdF footage.
> The BBQ was on a spacious 2 level patio with views of downtown San
> Diego.
>
> As a treat Jim Ogden, Sterling's neighbor and a vintage cyclist
> gave several of us a tour of his turn-of-the-century house and then
> his garages with 2 early Pope automobiles, a Jensen Interceptor III
> and the 1930's Rolls Royce Phantom II.
>
> An outstanding time was had by all-
> Thanks again!
>
> Matt Gorski
> Belmont Shore, CA