This thread has been the greatest. Full of facts, opinion, prejudice, the whole works!
Thank you, Peter, for putting the Don Juan photos on a site that doesn't make you sign up.
Now, the question: Pronunciation always has to do with snobbery; how do we prounounce "Don Juan" correctly? As in Spanish or as the title of Byron's poem is pronounced?
And, as for bike snobbery of the ordinary sort, how could anyone look down their nose at a bike as totally splendid as Mark Hoffman's Dawes?
David Bean
Arlington, MA USA
beandk at are-see-enn dot com