[CR]I'd like to introduce myself

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Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:43:15 -0800
From: "William Crowell" <retroguybilly@gmail.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]I'd like to introduce myself

Hi, there. I'm new to the group. My name is Bill Crowell, I'm 61 and an attorney by profession (please don't hold it against me) but I really aspire to be a bike bum, and I live in Diamond Springs, near Placerville, California in the Sierra foothills. I've had a modest collection of vintage road bikes ever since the early '70s, when I lived in Berkeley. If it's appropriate, maybe I'll post pictures of some of my bikes. How do you do that?

I like to do fairly long rides on my old Columbus-tubed, lugged frames such as my Waterford Schwinn Paramount (main rider) or my silver-soldered Don Milberger, but I'm not that fast. I still have fairly good endurance, like, probably good enough to do a century but not a double century. I'm a fairly decent climber for an old guy because we have so many hills around here. There just aren't any flat rides around here.

I also have a couple of tandems that are fairly interesting.

I hope to talk to you all in the future.

Bill Crowell