Hi Mr. Maus, if your hand made bikes are lugged steel they are most likely on topic and almost certainly of interest to the teeming hoards, i mean the list. so lets hear about it, pal. devon warner in the dreary fog of San Francisco, CA, USA
> From: The Maus Family <maus5@sbcglobal.net>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR]Introduction
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 9:33 AM
\r?\n> Hello everyone, my name is Steve Maus and I live in
\r?\n> Greenwood, IN, USA. I'm
\r?\n> 50 and a metallurgical engineer by day, and an ex-USCF Cat
\r?\n> 2 racer who rides
\r?\n> 100-150 miles/week almost year-round.
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I got started during the bike boom when I bought a 1972
\r?\n> Schwinn Varsity with
\r?\n> allowance and lawn mowing money. My first lightweight was
\r?\n> a 1975 Motobecane
\r?\n> Grand Record; it fit me perfectly (long trunk/TT) and rode
\r?\n> like a dream. I
\r?\n> sold it to make room for my first custom, built by Roy
\r?\n> Simonson (Rainbow
\r?\n> Cycles) in 1977. I've regretted parting with that Moto
\r?\n> ever since!
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> My interest in bikes led me into racing and into building
\r?\n> custom frames to
\r?\n> pay for college, and I still build for friends and family.
\r?\n> I occasionally
\r?\n> ride S/N 1 which was built in 1977 and probably has
\r?\n> 25-30,000 miles on it.
\r?\n> My other on-topic bike is a tandem I built in 1983 that has
\r?\n> a 1978 Campy
\r?\n> group with the elegant crankset with a triple on the rear.
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Other OT bikes I've owned over the years:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> 1976 MKM: loved that stoved Brit enamel, hated the chain
\r?\n> stays when they
\r?\n> cracked
\r?\n>
\r?\n> 1978 DeRosa: beautiful to look at but a handful to ride
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Two 1980's Bianchis: sponsor bikes, broke the first one
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> My everyday bike now is a Prestige-tubed fixie that I ride
\r?\n> in the rolling
\r?\n> hills south of Indianapolis. It has three generations of
\r?\n> older Dura Ace
\r?\n> components, including a set of 1975 low-flange hubs. They
\r?\n> were inherited
\r?\n> from my dear departed dad who commuted 35 miles round trip
\r?\n> every day before
\r?\n> succumbing to cancer many years ago.
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Here's to the classics - I look forward to learning and
\r?\n> contributing where I
\r?\n> can!
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Steve Maus
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Greenwood, IN
\r?\n>
\r?\n> USA