James,
Yeah, all the bike parts lying around are only the tip of the iceberg! Next time I will be able to let you guys look through enough buckets and boxes of lugs and frame bits to choke an elephant. The stuff you saw was the stuff I couldn't shove into some cubby hole in one of several locations here. Most is out of sight, if you can imagine that! My actual stash of vintage bike parts wasn't even visible other than the stuff "just lying around". In addition to that, a new batch of vintage NOS Campagnolo parts showed up this past Sunday. I will be categorizing the stuff for sale to CR members when I get the time (it may take a while). There are a lot of the consumable parts that I now have here. Next meeting I will offer some for sale; the money will go to the original owner of the parts; but the vintage crowd needs this stuff to keep the classics running. I'm VERY lucky to have such long time good friends who appreciate what we are doing with the vintage gear.
Brian Baylis La Mesa, CA It's not really a "mancave"; it's more like a Mancastle! It might be visible from outer space! Anyone notice the forklift in the photos? Yeah, baby! I'm taking up forklift racing. ;-)
Hey, I was a fun party. It was very nice to see some friends and meet new ones. I took a couple photos. The one thing that caught my eye was the amount of bike parts Brian has laying about!
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Cheers!
On Jun 29, 2010, at 8:40 AM, brianbaylis@juno.com wrote:
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> Chris,
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> Thanks for posting those great photos! We did indeed have a great time on an absolutely beautiful day. The ride was "sort of" hilly, but lucky for me it wasn't too long. I need to start riding again. Once the construction is finished here, I will be able to return to "normal" work and functioning. It's been about 3 years of distractions and moving stuff around and I'm anxious to start catching up with my work load.
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> Matt Gorski is a prince among men and it was our pleasure to throw a birthday bash; primarily thanks to Sterling Peters. As it turned out David Ybarrola(local framebuilder and chairman of the International Bicycle Framebuilders Expo) had a birthday as well on that very day! We want to thank all who showed up to ride and hang out at what will become the "ultimate man cave" when completed. Once the house is finished (including THREE decks), there will be more room and more places to look around and see all sorts of projects in progress.
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> I would especially like to thank Greg Townsend and James Valiensi for making the trip down from the far reaches of the Los Angeles basin. Next time I'll see if I can find some slightly flatter ground for the ride so the fixed gear guys won't suffer so much. But I really enjoyed the event and do look forward to more in the future. Some day we will be able to terrorize downtown La Mesa by blasting down main street in a Bentley with people hanging out of it all over the place, shoot off water propelled bottle rockets, mow down ground squirrels with the potato gun, and other such shenanigans. Looking forward to it!
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> Thanks again, Chris, for documenting our first visit to Mancave Central.
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> Brian Baylis
> La Mesa, CA
> USA
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: cwstudio@aol.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR] A fun vintage ride
> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:11:43 -0400
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> Hello all,
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> On June 19th Brian Baylis and Sterling Peters hosted a very enjoyable event, The Matt Gorski Birthday Bike Ride Extravaganza.
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> It was a lot of fun, beginning with a well paced ride that included a couple of hills to keep us honest. I met many great people, renewed my acquaintance with old friends, and generally had a wonderful time. Many thanks to Brian and Sterling for kindly hosting the event, and a big Happy Birthday to Matt. Here is a link to a few photographs from the event.
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> http://www.wooljersey.com/
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> Cheers,
> Chris Wimpey
> San Diego, California
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