[CR]FYI: Elswick Hopper Vampire Convincible

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To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]FYI: Elswick Hopper Vampire Convincible
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 20:45:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>

It's bikes like this that produce the same thrill as that of a gold miner looking for a new vein (mother lode) of ore.

I am reminded of my trip to Paris in 2004, where I photographed many odd bicycles parked on the streets. On the CR list they started talking about (I think) Constrictor brakes and I had just photographed some outside a thrift shop the day before.

It was a feeling like I was a coin collector magically transported back to 1957, allowing me to rummage through my change at any given store in any given day, with a good chance that I'd find a shiny brilliant uncirculated 'missing link' coin to complete a valuable colletion of mine ...

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA