in years past old house journal had a back page called "remuddled" as opposed to remodeled when someone took a thing of beauty and turned into an absolute monstrasity in the name of modernizing it was always the first page i looked at last issue i picked up that page was no longer there surely theres a similar title the list could come up with for vintage bicycles actually like the idea (no not the idea of doing such to fine vintage iron simply displaying examples that alas, have already fallen victim) peace
Sarah GibsonAcme Bicycle Company412 East 18thKansas City, Missouri 64108h ttp://www.acmebicyclecompany.com816 221 2045 well behaved women rarely make history_ride yr friggin bicycle_
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:18:00 +0000> From: alexpianos@yahoo.fr> To:
Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: [CR]Conservation/restoration etc>
> Obviously you shouldn't leave any "patina" on a bike that is actively dam
ag> ing to it's condition. > > Of the four bikes I sent photos of the Basti
de was the "limit" case and the> one I was expecting this sort of criticism
about.> > It appears to me that the corrosion on the Bastide is passive,
not active, > and that it will stabilise in this condition if the bike i
s conserved in a > dry atmosphere. But if someone can prove this is scienti
fically incorrect, > then I will agree the bike should be cleaned polishe
d and waxed. NOT restor> ed under any circumstance. On the other hand, th
e bike has been here a numb> er of years, and the condition hasn't change
d one bit.> > In museums, I haven't noticed that bronze Greek statues are
polished up to > a high finish, and the green surface oxydation removed
to get back to the o> riginal colour? I understand that the patina is actua
lly a surface protect> ion against the ravages of time.> > But of course al
l of these museum curators might just be idiots, or not hav> e enough ski
ll, money, or talent to restore/have their works of art restore> d prop
erly?> > Anyway my point was : far more damage has been done to bicycles by
the "il > faut que ça brille" ("let's get this nice and shiny") brigade
than by the> conservationists.> > In actual fact I think that at the next C
irque there should be an "over-res> tored" category. Winners should be made
to hand over any bike they have not> already destroyed, and banned from
buying any more bikes until they have a> mended their ways.> > Alexander Ma
rch> Bordeaux> France> >
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