Hi CR folks,
To save me from individual responses if possible...
The response to the reprints was so overwhelming that I was to get a slightly better rate on the copies - so now domestic shipping is included in the $30 price!
The Vintage Racing Bicycle Newsletter Reprints are being picked up from the printer today - All bound and ready for shipment. The "book" is 189 pages, and I printed it Single Sided so that its a bit easier on the eyes.
To those who reserved a copy, please email me your shipping address (even if you think I have it somewhere). Then please mail your check for $30 to
Mike Kone PMB506 1630A 30th Street Boulder, CO 80301
Note that for domestic shipping, I will cover the shipping (and packaging) by US postal media mail as part of the $30 fee.
I will start mailing them out early in the week - even if I don't have your check yet. (is anyones reputation worth only $30? - I hope not!)
Now - if you did not reserve one, I printed a few extra copies so you can still just email your address and tell me to send it and you'll be in business.
Mike Kone in Boulder CO
> Hi CR folks,
\r?\n>
\r?\n> For those who are waiting for confirmation that their Vintage Racing Bicycle
\r?\n> Newsletter reprint packages are available, it will be a few more days. I'm
\r?\n> still building the new master, which I hope to complete by Wednesday AM and then
\r?\n> I'll get it to the printer.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> For those who may have missed the post, the details are below. If you are
\r?\n> interested but have not submitted your "reservation", just email me in the next
\r?\n> day or so.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Mike Kone in Boulder CO
\r?\n>
\r?\n> -------------- Original message --------------
\r?\n> From: hersefan@comcast.net
\r?\n>
\r?\n> > Hi CR folks,
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > The response to my offer to sell reprints of my old publication, the Vintage
\r?\n> > Racing Bicycle Newsletter, was quite overwhelming. Needless to say, I hit the
\r?\n> > minimum number I needed to justify the project.
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > So to everyone who emailed me (I did not respond to the emails, I just saved
\r?\n> > them and took names), please hold tight and I'll try to get them done in the
\r?\n> > next 7 to 10 days. When the sets are completed, I'll email everyone with
\r?\n> > confirmation that their set is waiting. Payment and shipping will happen then.
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > Now, if anyone else is interested who did not respond to my original posting,
\r?\n> > just let me know in the next couple of days. I'll be getting the master ready
\r?\n> > and the actual printing (copying) will happen no sooner than the end of the
\r?\n> > week.
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > Some folks have inquired about scans and clean ups and all sorts of things. It
\r?\n> > would all be nice, and I've thought of it, but I know my time constraints and
\r?\n> I
\r?\n> > know how ugly the originals are. It just doesn't make sense to open the giant
\r?\n> > can of worms. They will be as they will be I'm afraid.
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > Thanks again!
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > Mike Kone in Boulder CO
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > -------------- Original message --------------
\r?\n> > From: hersefan@comcast.net
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > > I've had a request for backissues to the defunct newsletter I used to write
\r?\n> -
\r?\n> > > the Vintage Racing Bicycle Newsletter. I published this when I owned Bicycle
\r?\n> > > Classics Inc. many years ago. The newsletter was started at the begining of
\r?\n> > > 1994 and ran through 1999. The articles were pretty crude, the graphic
\r?\n> quality
\r?\n> > > was terrible, the spelling even worse. But it retrospect the newsletters
\r?\n> track
\r?\n> > > the development of our hobby in its early days. There were 17 issues (I
\r?\n> think,
\r?\n> > > I only have through 17), each about 10 pages long (including the mailing
\r?\n> > page).
\r?\n> > >
\r?\n> > > I'm thinking of reproducing these - some of which will look even worse then
\r?\n> > they
\r?\n> > > originally did due to second generation reprints.
\r?\n> > >
\r?\n> > > But - if your not scared away, and you want early articles on things like
\r?\n> > Masi,
\r?\n> > > Confente, Herse, Austro Daimler, Hetchins, frame construction, Campagnolo
\r?\n> > stuff,
\r?\n> > > and articles from some of the well known folks who frequent the CR list,
\r?\n> > please
\r?\n> > > email me.
\r?\n> > >
\r?\n> > > I think I would reprint the pile, and sell it as a big bound volume (about
\r?\n> 190
\r?\n> > > pages) and charge about $30 or so.
\r?\n> > >
\r?\n> > > If interested, please email me, so that I can figure if/how many to run.
\r?\n> > >
\r?\n> > > Also, there were some folks who may not have taken up the offers to redeem
\r?\n> > > unused portions of subscriptions for cash or parts when publication ceased.
\r?\n> If
\r?\n> > > you are owed anything from then (5 years ago), let me know and hopefully I
\r?\n> can
\r?\n> > > make it up to you with reprints or something else.
\r?\n> > >
\r?\n> > > Mike Kone in Boulder CO