Re: [CR]Disappearing Traditional Bikes

(Example: Bike Shops)

Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:12:20 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Disappearing Traditional Bikes
References: <BAY136-F2734FF5641237BE7738FBF5640@phx.gbl>
In-Reply-To:


devotion finesse wrote:
> The streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn now have more hipsters on track
> bikes than old Polish ladies shopping for pierogis and kielbasa. For
> better or for worse.

I just got back from a college visit to Oberlin OH with my daughter. Lots of steel fixies in use there, some old reclaimed road frames, some new, built to purpose ones. Not bad for a town of 8,000 with 2,500 member student body.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA