Re: [CR] proper bike porn

(Example: Racing:Roger de Vlaeminck)

Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:47:52 +0100
From: "Hilary Stone" <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: Charles Andrews <chasds@mindspring.com>
References: <5B4C02EA50EC4E8ABF72AC6C01821E77@DELL>
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Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] proper bike porn


I have to say that I am not 100% convinced from the photos this is a 70s frame - it could be an early 80s just about... The photos are so bad that you cannot tell whether it has pressed or cast lugs...

Hilary Stone, Bristol, British Isles

Charles Andrews wrote:
> You would think, with all the examples now floating around the web, that this fellow would have done a better job creating the proper bike porn shots to sell his bike. But no. He gives us all fuzzy, not-very-helpful pics that look like they were taken long ago, surreptitiously....after all, real bike porn is just too hot for most.
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
> The fact that most people interested in this bike know what it looks like is no excuse...that fact dictates that you have to make really superior bike porn out of it to get any interest.
>
> Charles Andrews
> Los Angeles
>
>
> "everyone has elites; the important thing is
> to change them from time to time."
>
> --Joseph Schumpeter, via Simon Johnson