Re: [CR] VINTAGE RAPHAEL GEMINIANI CAMPAGNOLO BIKE

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From: "Mark Fulton" <markfulton5@mac.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:10:10 -0800
To: Jon Spangler <hudsonspangler@earthlink.net>
Cc: Dale Brown <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] VINTAGE RAPHAEL GEMINIANI CAMPAGNOLO BIKE


Hi Jon, Fred, Dale, List...

I bought an almost new Geminiani right after I moved to Palo Alto in 1960. It was my first three-chairing bike. 15 speeds. I bought it for fifty bucks from an notice at the Laundromat on California Avenue. It was the most comfortable race-ready bike I'd ever owned. But then I was offered a 1950 Locomotief Tour de France for the same price. So of course I sold the Geminiani for seventy-five bucks and bought the Locomotief. I still have it, but I do wish I'd kept that Geminiani too.

Mark Fulton
Riding every day in record (high) temps in
Redwood City
California
USA