[CR] Love of my Live (Rosie) Triumph now my second dumbest bike mistake

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To: <velocipede@optimum.net>
From: <stephen.p.kinne@hsbcpb.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:46:44 -0500
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR] Love of my Live (Rosie) Triumph now my second dumbest bike mistake


Ray,

My first memory of riding in a car was a white 1960 Triumph TR3 that belonged to a friend of my father. He took me down for an ice cream in it, I was 4 years old. I just stared down at the road from over the lip if the cutaway door and thought we were going about a zillion miles an hour. I later watched them racing at Thompson Raceway (European style Grand Prix racing) in the mid 1960's, I was 8 or 9 years old, we lived nearby the track and my dad had the good sense to take his four boys to the track every Saturday where you could watch the qualifying heats for free (find out about Thompson Raceway on http://www.coldplugs.com).

In the early 1970's I wrenched in a local bike shop (in case all of you were wondering this is where the classic bicycle related content for the post lies). In 1974 while working at the shop I bought a 1961 TR3A from a friend's uncle who had it in a barn, $300, black, red interior, white top and tonneau cover, I was obsessed with getting a white respray. I felt like Ken Miles riding around in that thing with the tonneau cover zipped over the passenger side. Shortly after buying the car I broke my left knee playing scrimmage football and found myself in a cast from crotch-to-toe for 9 MONTHS! A fellow that worked with me in the bike shop named Dan Jackson bugged me every day to sell him that car, TR3's were the (missing) love of his life too and he was mad as heck at my barn find. After 6 months of hounding me every day while I was sitting there wrenching bikes with one foot on the floor and my broken leg on a chair I finally relented, not having being able to work on the car with my broken leg anyway. Selling that car was my second dumbest bike mistake.

My first dumbest bike mistake was not buying a truckload of the Nuovo Record Masi Gran Criterium's that a distributor was trying to unload at $399 apiece. I didn't even buy one.

Now that's dumb.

Steve Kinne New York, USA

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