Lest our cousins across the pond think that all Americans were riding aroun d on Campy equipped bicycles in the Seventies let me reassure you that the vast majority of us were quite happy to grab up gaspipe and plain gauge Ral eighs, Peugeots, Gitanes, and Falcons equipped with cottered cranks, plasti c Simplex, Huret and as things got rolling, old world bikes with inexpensiv e and highly functional Japanese components.
There were of course, a very few purchasers of higher end bikes but you won 't ever find anyone here who'll admit to growing up in a upper middle class household. This holds true with the CR list. In an earlier discussion I determined that 95% of CR list members who rode a Campy bike in the Sevent ies as a teenager commuted from the wrong side of the tracks to their job i n bike shop as an indentured servant (but able to assemble a decent race bi ke none the less).
Michael Kahrl Columbus, Ohio
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