Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:44:09 -0500
From: "Angel Garcia" <veronaman@gmail.com>
To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] Entertaining Reading
http://tweed.cc/index.html
"Discerning cyclists recognise that bicycle technology reached its pinnacle
in the early 1970s and everything since has just been marketing. Millions
are spent every year on hoodwinking the public with obscure materials which
are all very well if you are constructing a craft to convey astronauts to
the Moon, but quite out of place on an English country lane. Lugged steel,
by contrast, is durable, comfortable and offers an opportunity for the
skilled framebuilder to practice his craft. Why spend a king's ransom on the
latest titanium confection when any weight advantage will be rendered
irrelevant by a cheese-and-pickle sandwich and a thermos of soup?"