I'm not sure why the name change, I think I had moved away from Ohio before he changed it, so I never asked him or was present if it was discussed at club functions. I bought lots of stuff also. In the 70's and early 80's he sold both Zeus and TA components and other now-classic stuff.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big SPring, Texas, USA
> From: Steve Whitting <ciocc_cat@yahoo.com>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Bike Warehouse/Nashbar
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
\r?\n> Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 6:17 PM
\r?\n> Interesting bit of trivia there.
\r?\n> Just curious - why did Arnie change the name from Bike
\r?\n> Warehouse to Bike Nashbar? I was (mis)informed that he
\r?\n> bought out the owners of Bike Warehouse and changed the
\r?\n> name.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I bought a lot of stuff from Bike Warehouse in the late
\r?\n> 70s. I recall them having cheap prices and fast service -
\r?\n> and I LOVED their catalogue!
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Steve Whitting
\r?\n> "The Ciocc Cat"
\r?\n> Prairieville, Louisiana USA
\r?\n> Website at http://ciocc-cat.angelfire.com/
\r?\n>
\r?\n> --- On Fri, 8/7/09, Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
\r?\n> wrote:
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] Bob Stout?
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org,
\r?\n> "Steve Whitting" <ciocc_cat@yahoo.com>
\r?\n> Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 11:38 AM
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> There was no pre-Arnie Nashbar Bike Warehouse. Arnie
\r?\n> founded Bike Warehouse, later changing the name to Bike
\r?\n> Nashbar, then more recently selling out to Perfomance
\r?\n> Bicycles. I don't know if Arnie has continued any
\r?\n> association with operation since the sale. In the early
\r?\n> 70's I was a member of The Outspokin' Wheelman, an LAW club
\r?\n> in Youngstown, OH, of which Arnie was a co-founder. Arnie
\r?\n> was then running what would later become Bike Warehouse out
\r?\n> of his garage. Nevertheless, Arnie evidently was large
\r?\n> enough or maybe well connected enough to get dealer pricing
\r?\n> on Schwinn World Voyageurs, a now somewhat legendary bargain
\r?\n> early Japanese Schwinn with a DB CrMo frame and high-end
\r?\n> Japanese components,including several original DuraAce
\r?\n> bits. This bike was made for only one year, can't remember
\r?\n> if that was 1973 or 1974. The World Voyageur was a bargain
\r?\n> even at retail, but Arnie got about half a dozen club
\r?\n> members these bikes at an even better price. As
\r?\n> I
\r?\n> recall they were all international orange, although this
\r?\n> bike also came in lemon yellow and sky blue.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Regards,
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Jerry Moos
\r?\n> Big Spring, Texas, USA
\r?\n>
\r?\n> --- On Thu, 8/6/09, Steve Whitting <ciocc_cat@yahoo.com>
\r?\n> wrote:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> > From: Steve Whitting <ciocc_cat@yahoo.com>
\r?\n> > Subject: [CR] Bob Stout?
\r?\n> > To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> > Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 9:58 PM
\r?\n> > In the mid-70s, Bike Warehouse
\r?\n> > (pre-Arni Nashbar) published a "framebuilders
\r?\n> catalogue"
\r?\n> > featuring the "who's-who" of domestic and a few
\r?\n> > across-the-pond framebuilders. I recall that Bob
\r?\n> Stout
\r?\n> > was building some really beautiful frames back then.
\r?\n> Does
\r?\n> > anyone know if Bob is still in business? Does anyone
\r?\n> on CR
\r?\n> > own a Stout frame?
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > Thanks,
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > Steve Whitting
\r?\n> > "The Ciocc Cat"
\r?\n> > Prairieville, Louisiana USA
\r?\n> > Website at http://ciocc-cat.angelfire.com/