Finding people in the archives ... it's easy stuff for anyone, if they know
how to look. Here is a link to the Bikelist.org Archives:
http://search.bikelist.org/
When looking for a person in posts, simply type in their name as it would appear in their signoff, and you will receive results that have that signoff, exactly as you typed in. So in this case, a search for "robbie fellows", produced 1227 matching results! I only looked at the first page of 25 matches; posts number 10 through 25 were all made by Robbie, and hence have his contact email (or his old one). Remember that the archives system often (but not always) places an "(at)", everywhere a traditional "@" symbol is found in an email address, in order to keep robot programs from spamming. Simply copy the email address as it appears in the archive post, paste it into your email address box, and change the "(at)" to"@" before sending. It's just that easy.
Now to hone down results a bit, you could try the next level of search, where two potentially separate words are being sought out. By placing the two key words each within quote marks, and separated by the word -AND (capital letters not necessary), it tells the search engine to find posts containing those two words, in no particular order. In this case, I performed a search, exactly as typed in the following parenthesis, but NOT including the parenthesis: ("robbie" and "hoods"), which produced a well reduced 253 results. This time, posts made by Robbie himself didn't show up until result number 34, but there were several after that. Click on the results links, until you see what you are looking for. If it doesn't work, your search words may need adjustment. In this way, you can find almost anything in the archives, as long as you are willing to play with it for a few minutes till you get the results you need. Hope this helps others in their searches for people and information contained in our archives.
And after all this, the answer to your real question, is that Robbie's email contact is: <Rnitro1969@aol.com>.
Happy new year! Mark Agree Southfield MI USA ~ ~ ~
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:15:28 +0000 From: Harry McMillan <harrymcmillan@mac.com> Subject: Re: [CR] Robbie Fellows, you saved my life (possibly) To: _Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org_ (mailto:Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org)
Hi All,
Newbie here so apologies if this has been covered a thousand times. I keep coming across references to Robbie Fellows in relation to reproduction hoods for Campy levers, can anybody supply the contact details? I've trawled back through the archives and the email address on Robbie's posts doesn't seem to work. Thanks.
Happy New Year to everyone.
Harry McMillan Argyll, Scotland
On 1 Jan 2010, at 16:08, Toni Theilmeier wrote:
> What with dale complaining that only about forty of the seventeen
> hundred CR members post regularly, it is perhaps a good idea to
> harp in again, starting with the best wishes for the new year, fun
> and above all safe cycling, which is right what I?m on about.
>
> Preparing my bikes for the next season I had two nasty shocks over
> the last couple of days. To begin with I found that a pair of
> plastic, bonded pad Aztec brake shoes had un-bonded, leaving me
> with a funny noise when adjusting the brakes which made me look,
> and then my hair stand on end, when one of the pads fell straight
> off after I had taken the wheel out. It?s the ones with the yellow
> wear indicator thingies. I had these in Mafac Racers, maybe some of
> you have, too, so while this doesn?t sound on-topic, it is.
>
> And now to Robbie: I thought it was time to replace some old, ex-
> white Dia Compe gum hoods on a pair of NR brake levers with these
> wonderful hoods of Robbie?s. Always keeping a pair or two of them
> in my Campag drawer (as any discerning CR member should, for sure),
> I took to work. The second Dia Compe hood off, I found that the
> former owner of the bike had _glued_ a piece of the grey lever body
> back after it had broken off, leaving the crack visible, to give a
> nice look-through effect with the glue. Good grief. I know that NR
> brakes weren?t supposed to stop the bike, but a brake lever
> breaking in two during a ride is overstating the point. So a big
> THANK YOU, ROBBIE, because I probably wouldn?t have bothered if it
> hadn?t been for his hoods.
>
> I?m now one grey NR brake lever body short of a pair - has anyone
> got a lever I could source the body from, perhaps? No clamp, no
> worm screw needed, just the body, preferably an unglued specimen.
>
> Thanks, and kind regards, Toni Theilmeier, Belm, Germany.
>
> P.S.: Still on analog dial up internet, so PLEASE no pictures. Thanks.