[CR] pseudo-science and fitting the facts

(Example: Framebuilders:Alex Singer)

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:31:23 +0000
From: "nicbordeaux" <nicbordeaux@yahoo.fr>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] pseudo-science and fitting the facts


Bike collectors inevitably seek to preserve knowledge. But where the knowledge is missing, by deduction based on partial data, heresay and religious fervor (hearing voices, visions, that sort of stuff) we start getting a whole load of fantasy disguised as a scientific basis, which is then built upon. Whether a particular bike can be attributed to a particular maker is a goodc case.The guys who have seen a lot of a maker's bikes will dismiss anything which they haven't seen before as "Not from maker x" because of something a little atypical, or the bike doesn't fit the scheme of what a maker is known to have been doing at the time. Turn up with a unusual bike, and the experts can't fit it into their already completed jigsaw puzzle, therefore it must be bogus/relabelled. It's inevitable, but maybe we could bear this in mind ? Nick March, Agen 47000 Lot et Garonne, France=0A=0A=0A _______________s.html