Greetings---
I agree wholeheartedly with Jerry. I happened to have won a prize for Best Display, but I didn't even know that there was a prize for such things until they announced my name. I was shocked, surprised, and delighted primarily in that people seemed to appreciate and share in what I had tried to do. My goal was to try to capture a wee bit of the ambiance of the glory days of British cycle touring with some memorabilia and such, because, basically, those were halcyon days we'll not see again. In fact, being born when and where I was, I never saw those days in the first place!
So I think, like a lot of us, I live a little bit (perhaps a great deal) in a romanticised past. The French randonneuring crowd and the L'Eroica participants know all about that, and, if not taken to excess, creating that kind of fantasy realm is a beautiful thing. And so we should not confuse passion for our machines and attention to detail with a competitive drive for ribands [<note quaint use of British spelling, another longing affectation of mine]. By doing what we do (and many, many do it far better than I), we attempt to, as one seminar presenter stated, "make the bicycle universe whole again."
Cheers to all,
Peter Jourdain Whitewater, Wisconsin
--- Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> I think the competition only becomes a problem if
> one allows it to. For me, the key is not to take it
> too seriously....[edit]
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