I think he's in the crowd watching the spectacle.
Ken Freeman Ann Arbor, MI
-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Adams Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 9:14 PM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]A Masi thought from an observer in the parterre.
If we don't own a Masi and aren't in a big hurry to get one, are we shaking the tree or falling out of it?
Tom (safety line) Adams, Shrewsbury NJ, specializing in obscure UK bikes
Yanko Damboulev <yanko@ffi.com> wrote: Somebody once managed to photograph the eye of a fish. The picture showed a railroad bridge and several details of the landscape, but the optical law of fish-vision showed all this in an improbably distorted manner. If someone managed to photograph my eye after reading what some of you have written about Masi, the result would be a picture no less unexpected than the world seen by the fish. Should people like me have and ride a Masi? NO, they shouldn't. And in order for me to preserve my healthy philological sense, I will add that one can easily feel the contagion of snobbery when reading about Masi. And I tell myself (Please note that I don't own a Masi): "Yanko, your life needs Classicism, your life needs Hellenism, your life needs a heightened sense of imagery...and you should buy a Masi because most people on the CR list do not recognize other bicycles..." And under the muzzle of these demands leveled at me, I shy. You might say all this is irrelevant. Yet what a difference between my lack of knowledge and the superiority of the Masi specialists. The Hottentots, to test their old men, would make them climb a tree. Then they would shake the tree: if the old man had grown so weak he fell out of the tree, that meant he had to be killed. Some members of this wonderful forum imitate the Hottentots; their favored method recalls the ritual I have just described. But we must distinguish between those who are interested in bright joy of bike riding and those who are interested in a Hottentots amusement.
Yanko Damboulev Los Angeles, CA 90069
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