Re: Re: Re: [CR]"Vintage" riders

(Example: Framebuilders:Masi)

From: "Michael Allison" <cyclo_one@verizon.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: Re: Re: [CR]"Vintage" riders
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:29:17 -0400
cc: Gabrial Romeu <romeug@comcast.net>


>> Every one of them was riding carbon wonder bikes.


> Those same riders wouldn't have said hi if it was 1978 and they were
> on steel wonder bikes. It's the rider, not the bike.
> Morgan "says hi" Fletcher
> Oakland, CA USA

Cycling friends:

I'd like to offer yet another prospective on those seemly unfriendly cyclists. They most likely were not even born in 1978. I can't speak for the rest of the country, but here in the New York area, and especially in the New York Cycle Club, there seems to be a newfound snobbishness. Perhaps it's a form of competitiveness. But if you're not on the "right" bike or wearing the "right" kit, you are engored.

Michael, who always says hi and asks a dismounted cyclist if they need help, Allison, New York, New York

PS: Chuck Schmidt's unnecessary, hostile comments, are a sad business.