ATTENTION ALL LIST MEMBERS!!!!!!!!:
With the usual short notice, just as the last gathering, here it is time has once
again rolled around for the next monthly meeting of the Brooklyn Velodrome Vintage
Wheelmen.
The meeting will take place on Thursday April 27, 2006.
The BVVW group is comprised of about 25 hardcore certified
freaks, who will hangout and talk bike stuff for about 2 hours.The BVVW is a
tangent of Gruppo Sportivo Pergolizzi.
This will be an informal gathering of all N.Y. metro area cyclists who
share an interest in vintage bicycles and cycling history. As always, youse is all invited.
Meet at the corporate headquarters of The Hartford Insurance Co., 2 Park
Avenue, 7th floor (between 32ed and 33rd Streets (on the West side of the
Avenue), Manhattan, New York City.
You MUST bring PHOTO I.D. !!!!!!!!!!
We will talk the old talk (1930 to 1980) of cycling, our heroes, and
their bicycles and parts. Subject for the evenings discussion will be "Broken Bits"; in honor of a recent crash by a certain American rider at Paris-Roubaix. Bring those broken crankarms, stems, anything that is bicycle oriented that has failed under pressure! AND bring THE STORIES.
Meet at 5:30 p.m. for a 6:00 o'clock start. BIG Thank you goes to Mike Schmidt for the top-o-de-line place.
Also, $ will be collected for "THE" Brooklyn Velodrome Vintage
Wheelmen / G.S.Pergolizzi OFFICIAL jersey LOOK:
http://www.wooljersey.com/
The BVVW jersey is gold with a wide white stripe across the chest and back,
flanked by a thin black stripe above and another below the white with gold/black ribbing at the collar and sleeve ends and is made of 100% Merino wool with three buttoned pockets in the rear. The BVVW jersey will be available in both long and short sleeve versions and WITH AND WITHOUT embroidery. So...... their are four possible combinations.
Our jerseys will be manufactured by Alex Clark's company "Woolistic" in Italy and will be sized the same as their other fine jerseys, so please refer to http://www.vintagevelos.com for sizing information. The quality of the Woolistic products is unsurpassed in the world of cycling today and will be a fine addition to your jersey collection.
Prices will be commensurate with the other jerseys in the Woolistic Line; short sleeve are $132.00 each and long sleeve are $143.00 each. Please refer to the Vintagevelos site for shipping specifics (add $8.00 priority shipping in the continental U.S. to your order for the first item, $2.00 extra for each additional item).
At around 8:00p.m. we will go for eats. The restaurant will be John's Pizzeria at 278 Bleeker St. in Greenwich Village. Pizza is cooked in a coal fired brick oven. We seen the coal pile in the basement while waiting on line outside a couple a meetings ago. Budweiser beer is on tap and cold! Ernesto and Joe the waiters take good care of us. As long as they gets their "tribute".
Please make every effort to come as we never get enough fun!
If it's only Nino, Bill, Mike, and me, we'll be there and will be working on getting our buzz on.
Expect to get home.
Bosco Gong, Joel Dressner, , C.J. Scheiner, Greg Goode, Leland Vall,
Roy H. Drinkwater, Jeremy Lieberman, , Anthony Mezzatesta, Julian Shapiro, Duncan Granger and any other yet unattended CR members from the vicinity, we're still waiting for youse guys to show up.
PLEASE e-mail me if your "new" and plan to attend as I need a list for corporate
security.
John T. Pergolizzi,
BVVW Omnipotent Despot
Brooklyn, New York
1-917-770-2025