Re: [CR]Yikes! This is a "Keeper of the flame"????

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To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Yikes! This is a "Keeper of the flame"????
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:59:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>

First of all, this appears to be a real bike, and when you right-click on the ABOUT link you see "Website by Growhouse", i.e. the company that made the website is a REAL website design company:

http://www.growhouse.dk/

Secondly, when I guess you're worth $100M or more and you own your own jet, $80,000 for a bike seems like a bargain. Also, you must have a T3 (44 Mbps) internet connection ~ one of those download pages (Logo.tif ~ crystal bike lugs uncompressed) is 100 MB !!!

Now for some questions :

(1) Why would you put a $50 saddle on an 80,000 euro bicycle? That's clearly a $50 plain brooks b-17. You should take it apart and gold-plate the rails, at the very least ...

(2) The choice of components is surprising, it looks like a sugino crankset and the front hub seems to be made by formula.

(3) I bet that when you take it out on the road for the first time, those lugs will flex and half your crystals will fall off !!!

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA