Re: [CR] A peek into the life of painters and framebuilders

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From: <"brianbaylis@juno.com">
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:51:12 +0000
To: <paccoastcycles@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] A peek into the life of painters and framebuilders


Chuck,

I just saw a promo for Modern Marvels. "The Potato" is slated for tomorrow night at 8pm.

The smell of the burnt hairspray isn't very pleasing; but the fun is really worth it. I'm curious who came up with the idea. There are lots of "folk entertainment" type of stunts like the potato gun out there, for example the Mentos and Diet Coke thing. I find this stuff really interesting and fun.

The potato gun is totally legal; but the projectile will blow a hole clean through a bag of potato chips at 50 yards. I wonder why it is framebuilders and painters that bring out this stuff when they get together. The potato gun and the 2 liter soda bottle water rockets were transferred to the southern Cal framebuilders by way of Rob Roberson who picked up a lot of these concepts from the guys working at Ibis when he worked there back in the 90's or thereabouts.

Brian Baylis
La Mesa, CA
I can hardly wait to see this on TV!


---------- Original Message ----------
From: Chuck Hoefer
To: "brianbaylis@juno.com"
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] A peek into the life of painters and framebuilders
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:15:04 -0800


With hair spray or deodorant as propellants, it sounds like an activity that a generation brought up on television would embrace. I'd guess that the deodorant would, at the least, not offend. The hair spray would undoubtedly be of a cheap variety and likely the fragrance would remind one of high school prom dates. What a world we live in!

Chuck Hoefer Vista, California USA

brianbaylis@juno.com wrote:
> Dear CR Friends,
>
> I just want to mention something fun that is due to air on television tomorrow, Thursday Jan. 28. We have word that the History Channel is airing a segment on the program "Modern Marvels" related to "the potato". Apparently about a year ago world renown bike painter and one of my best friends and colleges, Joe Bell, was filmed demonstrating a common framebuilder/painter recreational activity for the History Channel. Jason Lilly, who is also a bike industry person is featured as well. When we gather for parties and fun, one of the favorite activities is shooting the Potato Gun. They are made from plumbing tubing and an igniter from a Coleman lantern. The propellant is usually hair spray or deodorant. The rest of the details are best seen as opposed to explained. I encourage everyone to try and catch Modern Marvels tomorrow at 8pm (as far as we have been told) to see this thing in action. After the show I will explain a little bit of the history of these activities amongst framebuilders (the ones who are fun and creative people, not the ones who take themselves way too seriously) and fill in a few other things we like to do for grins after we've done a hard days work.
>
> I don't have the technology to record the show; but I would love to have a DVD copy or whatever if someone can capture the show. Once I'm all finished moving and getting all set up in my new shop, and after I have caught up a bit; I have plans to build " Uber Potato"; which will be the next stage of refinement of the process. The current generation is called the "Dick Tater". I suspect this will be WELL worth watching, knowing what a fun personality JB has and knowing his ability as a showman. Catch it if you can! NO, not the potato, the TV show!
>
> Brian Baylis
> La Mesa, CA
>
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