Re: [CR]Introduction

(Example: Production Builders:Tonard)

Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:57:30 -0800
From: "devon warner" <crabulux@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Introduction
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, The Maus Family <maus5@sbcglobal.net>
In-Reply-To: <5b7e1c22-6e92-4bcc-911e-256887336068@exchange12.nt.phred.org>


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


--- On Tue, 1/6/09, The Maus Family wrote:


> 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