[CR] Restoration contest...

(Example: Production Builders:LeJeune)

References: <20090131192334.461FC13633@ug8.ece.ubc.ca>
To: <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:18:07 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20090131192334.461FC13633@ug8.ece.ubc.ca>
From: "Dale Brown" <oroboyz@aol.com>
Subject: [CR] Restoration contest...


Don wrote:

<<Some day, we should have an annual contest on the CR mailing list on who can take the WORST BIKE and make it THE BEST BIKE while throwing away THE LEAST STUFF and or SPENDING THE LEAST MONEY.>>

I thought maybe it should be a race. :)

Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina USA

-----Original Message----- From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 2:23 pm Subject: Re: [CR] A Peugeot, but was it a px10 ? http://tinyurl.com/dxjfvm

Here are two bikes that are "restoration challenges" :

http://tinyurl.com/dxjfvm http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~gillies/raleigh/p4240476.jpg

Some day, we should have an annual contest on the CR mailing list on who can take the WORST BIKE and make it THE BEST BIKE while throwing away THE LEAST STUFF and or SPENDING THE LEAST MONEY. Steve Maas has done it many times :

http://www.nonlintec.com/bikepages/

I think it would make a great annual CR contest !!

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA, USA