Hi Classic Rendezvous gang:
First let me congratulate you all for conducting yourselves in a more-or-less congenial and civil way these past months. It has required very moderate extra work by me "behind-the-scenes". This is good because as a few of you know, I have been dealing with my Dad's battle with cancer. He passed away yesterday; it was a blessing
as he was having a tough time of it toward the end. FYI, my Dad, Clinton E. Brown, among many palmares was in 1960 Chief of
the Theoretical Mechanics Division at NACA/NASA, and involved with the early space program as head of the Lunar Missions Steering Group at Langley.? http://history.nasa.gov/
This forum has grown to be over 1500 members... the traffic to the Classic Rendezvous web site has also steadily increased. I hope you all will consider the banner advertisers who make it all possible for your vintage bike bits and pieces.
I also need to remind you that occasionally a member gets the auto-boot (i.e., is removed as a CR member) due to failing to sign their messages as required. Often it's a new member who, despite warnings in the sign up process, simply did not read the rules. Whoever gets caught up this way can simply sign up again, but I am hoping the pain-in-the-posterior factor will remind them to play the game according to the rules...
Finally, I do ask all members to refresh their memories of the basics. Here are the biggies: - Sign off every message with first and last name, city, state and country. (no abbreviations or cute nick names, etc., please.) - Stay on topic (If you start a message saying "This may not be on topic, but...", you shouldn't send it at all!). - Don't be mean, sarcastic or harsh toward other members, ever. - Avoid humor, is most often misunderstood and causes the above. - Don't ask "what is this worth?" - Don't post 'For Sale' items more than once. - Only offer items For Sale with a set price (Ebay is for auctions, not the CR list) - Ask me off list first if you are unsure of what's appropriate to post to this list...
Thanks and enjoy this forum, Dale
Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina USA http://www.classicrendezvous.com
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Lawrence <mark.lawrence@firstreadthis.com> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:35 pm Subject: RE: [CR]Sologne Pannier Bags
I'd really like to know more about the origins of cycling bags - cloth and construction, as well as designs through the years. Bags seem as important important a part of the cyclotourists armoury as anything else. Yet, compa red to other cycling components, bags (panniers and handlebar bags) are cur iously under documented.
I often squint to see details of the bags in the archive photographs of Bi cycle Quarterly. For example, a frequently seen style possibly predating t he current Sologne design has a single horizontal strap below the lid faste ner, presumuably to act as a compressor where criss-cross laces became used by Sologne. To my knowledge the name of these have not been recorded anyw here in any English speaking source.
Kind regards,
Mark
Mark Lawrence
Oxford
England