Re: [CR]The Embacher Collection-What's It All About

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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:50:11 -0700
To: gholl@optonline.net, Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]The Embacher Collection-What's It All About


At 1:56 PM +0000 4/24/08, gholl@optonline.net wrote:
>This collection has a focus vastly different from that of CR and, I
>suspect, from many of the CR members' collections.
>The focus of the Embacher collection is on innovation, use of
>alternative materials, form and function across a wide spectrum of
>bicycles, not simply on steel lightweights.
>And, although many of these bikes seem, and are unsuccesful in their
>aims, others do hit the mark and influenced the evolution of bike
>manufacture. But it is well known that many a frog has to be kissed
>before a prince is found.
>It's fun to see the frogs and the princes, too.
>
>George Hollenberg MD
>CT, USA

George,

OFFLIST

That is what I was trying to convey. I just wanted to make sure nobody ordered the book and then was disappointed...

Jan