Re: [CR] Ride Report on early 80's Zunow

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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:48:58 -0700
From: <mrrabbit@mrrabbit.net>
To: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
References: <20090323032634.C82A8EC89@ug14.ece.ubc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20090323032634.C82A8EC89@ug14.ece.ubc.ca>
Cc: jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Ride Report on early 80's Zunow


Per Dale's request...not commenting any further on this thread...

However I do reserve the right to defend myself against directed profanity, ad- hom's and overt condescension.

Robert Shackelford San Jose, CA USA

Quoting donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>:
> Jerry,
>
> to coin a Geico term, we have a lot of junior members on CR and also
> "Cave Men" who have not ridden all those marquees that you apparently
> have in your stable. And actually, I have never ridden an italian
> bike, unless of course you consider my ALAN to be a typical italian
> bike, and I never ridden a french bike, except perhaps for a peugeot
> mixte that belonged to a neighbor's mom and that I tried for a few
> minutes when I was 15 and I thought it had a spectacular ride.
>
> So to me, you're saying the bike feels more like a carbon-steel
> Peugeot Mixte with Simplex Delrin gears, than it feels like my
> Super-Record ALAN ?? Is that the message you are trying to get
> across??
>
> I honestly don't know what it means to say, "The bike feels more
> Italian the French" ... Could you please elaborate? Thanx.
>
> - Don "Cave Man" Gillies
> San Diego, CA, USA
>
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