Re: [CR] Pics of my resto-mod "S W Cotten"

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From: "Jeff Slotkin" <jeffslotkin@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <963545.76613.qm@web84416.mail.ac2.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:09:31 -0400
References: <963545.76613.qm@web84416.mail.ac2.yahoo.com>
To: RICHARD HOWARD <rehoward1@verizon.net>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Pics of my resto-mod "S W Cotten"


I just wish the pics were bigger!

Jeff Slotkin, usually at The Bicycle Shoppe, Charleston, SC

On Mar 23, 2010, at 8:43 PM, RICHARD HOWARD wrote:
> W.B. Hurlow custom built to spec this frame set for me in 1972. It was badged as an "S W Cotten", Sam Cotten being the importer. I rode and raced it til the late 80's then hung it up in my basement. When I decided to convert it to a single speed I decided that I wanted to do a rattle can, outside the box paint job. I ran this idea and samples past my arty designer friends and they loved it.
> The LBS guys initially looked at the finished product like the chimps looking at the monolith in " 2001 A Space Odyssey". Then they came around.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/41665114@N04/
>
> Dick Howard
> Salem , Virginia
> US of A