They are coming out of the woodwork - got passed on my way home from the Uni today (riding the 49 Carpenter) by a student going the opposite direction on a lugged Fiori. What amazed me about the latter and my student on the Peugeot is that neither of the bikes was "fixiefied"!
Paul.
Paul B. Williams, BAH, MPhil, PhD Ottawa, Ontario, Canada castell5@sympatico.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: dave martinez To: Dr. Paul Williams Cc: CR List Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 4:04 PM Subject: Re: [CR]Hope from a new generation!?
Hello Paul,
By god there is hope! The other week, I was driving my park ranger truck through the old neighborhood- on my back to the service yard. I noticed a flash of chrome- a young cyclist elegantly accelerated away from a group of teenagers. The lad was a on new KoF(?) Bianchi Pista. He gracefully pedaled away with his courier bag swung over his his shoulder. As I gently passed him, I realised he successfully caught the draft of my truck and I inadvertently towed him through the historic town of Niles (bravo). Thoughts of the butcher boy from Castellania came to mind. Coincidentally, when I arrived home for the day, the book "Bianchi, a bicycle in the lead" arrived; highly recommended by the way.
Regards, David Martinez Fremont Ca US of A where thankfully one of our sons is interested in cycling.
--- On Fri, 9/26/08, Dr. Paul Williams <castell5@sympatico.ca> wrote:
From: Dr. Paul Williams <castell5@sympatico.ca> Subject: [CR]Hope from a new generation!? To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 5:03 AM
The other day I was sitting outside our building at the university having a coffee with a colleague when a student pulled into a nearby bike rack on a vintage Peugeot. As I looked over my colleague's shoulder
he asked if I was checking out her form - I laughed and said no and that
she was one of my students from a first-year seminar and that I was most
curious about her bike. I was also amazed by the fact that she was wearing a matching Peugeot team jersey. I didn't have a chance to look at the bike closely so will have to ask her in more detail about it next
week - in a later exchange of emails about an assignment she did say that:
"My Dad gave me that bike a few years ago, after he upgraded to a Trek or Giant or some other light-weight contraption! He bought it in Germany
in 1980. We haven't done too much to it - new brakes and Shimano pedals - but it still runs very well."
I am not sure of the model but the frame was in black and yellow livery (as was her jersey).
There is hope (this student is about 18 or 19) - and not just from the fixie brigade!
Paul Williams,
Paul B. Williams, BAH, MPhil, PhD
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
castell5@sympatico.ca