Riccardo Bulissimo wrote:
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> With visions of gleaming rare chrome and obscure hardware filling my head, my hyper-caffeinated brain this morning read Chuck's V-R news flash and before I could open the link I was calculating the gas and time/logistics to make another 1000+ mile round trip within 4 days of the one I gotta make to Las Vegas-Interbuyke.
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> ....and then the link opened. Gotcha! ouch! but the desire to get down to V-R is still there. Oh please, Chuck, next year schedule V-R to better co-incide with IB so I can do both...
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> Back to reading
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> Riccardo Bulissimo in Verdi Nevada
Ouch!
This will be the fifth year for Velo Rendezvous and every year the October date has been set solely to enable Interbike trade show attendees to also attend Velo Rendezvous. Originally I thought lots of people in the bike trade would welcome the opportunity to attend a vintage lightweight bike show.
Unfortunately this has not been the case. As Yogi Berra once said, "they stayed away in droves." The show has been very warmly received and supported by the collectors but not by those working in the industry.
As I've said in the past, my motivation for putting on Velo Rendezvous is a selfish one... I want to have a great, multiple day vintage lightweight bicycle event to go to with all my friends. So I've been blessed!
__o __o __o -\<,-\<,-\<, (_)/(_)/(_)/(_) Let the good times rollllll...
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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