You're in a bit late on this one Nor. Yes I do like like fillet brazed Schwinns, of which the World Traveler is not one by the way. Our late lamented friend Sheldon liked them also, I guess neither Sheldon nor I "got/get it", but I'm happy to be in that company.
So your theory is that fame is the only measure of talent, eh? I guess by that measure Britney Spears is the world's greatest singer, or actress, or whatever the heck it is she pretends to be. I guess I just need to watch reruns of "Lifesyles of the Rich and Famous" to get my sense of values straight. What was I thinking? Of course no one ever did a superb job of anything just for the satisfaction of doing so, even if it didn't make him rich and famous. Why that would be downright UnAmerican - or UnItalian - or UnFrench - or UnBritish.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA
> From: Nor Meyer <norbikes@gmail.com>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR]Re: Confente the unknown
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 3:59 PM
\r?\n> ...they could easily strike up a conversation with Merckx*
\r?\n> which the hundred
\r?\n> equally good builders could not
\r?\n> *
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Excuse me, but are we to believe that practically every
\r?\n> village in Italy had
\r?\n> its resident artisan framebuilder whose worse luck was
\r?\n> *not* to have the
\r?\n> good fortune to rub shoulders with the Cannibal and thereby
\r?\n> receive his
\r?\n> stamp of approval...? I would suggest that for every
\r?\n> framebuilder who
\r?\n> attains a reputation beyond the village limits there must
\r?\n> be hundreds if not
\r?\n> thousands who picked up the torch and eventually went back
\r?\n> to herding sheep
\r?\n> or shoveling manure or tending bar or whatever would-be
\r?\n> village artisans do
\r?\n> in Italy. I object to anyone talking so dismissively of the
\r?\n> hard-earned
\r?\n> talents of the established greats of framebuilders, be they
\r?\n> of Italian,
\r?\n> French, British, American, Japanese or where ever origin.
\r?\n> That attitude
\r?\n> goes a long way towards my understanding of the source of
\r?\n> their obsession
\r?\n> with the likes of Schwinn Superiors, World Travelers and
\r?\n> other behemoths of
\r?\n> that ilk. Their enthusiasm has nothing to do with the
\r?\n> bike's build quality
\r?\n> but everything to do with its arcane minutiae. That's
\r?\n> ok, too----somebody
\r?\n> has to carry that torch!
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Nor Meyer in Mt. Vernon, IA