Wow -- Matthew -- I applaud your prose as well.
Is it just me, or are the posts on the CR list delving into some serious creative literary credentials lately? Has anybody gotten a publisher yet?
Kyle Brooks Akron, OH
________________________________ From: Michael Shiffer <dennisflange@gmail.com> To: devotion_finesse@hotmail.com; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Fri, June 11, 2010 10:15:25 AM Subject: [CR] Con Denti
Hi Matthew, I too enjoyed your post. I do not, however, understand your resistance to fitting a pair of pedals to the Frejus that would allow you to ride it. The bike won't mind, I assure you (I asked my Frejus and was informed thus), and there is no way a lesser pair will damage your fine crankset. The authority figures in your cosmos won't know, and I suspect God has other, more pressing concerns.
Your shoes, be they Detto Pietro or otherwise, will cope. Your bikie friends will understand. Lamp posts will not snicker as you pass.
This obsession, if you feed it, is gonna cost you big-time. The desire to ride the magic Frejus will win out over frugality. Some dark hour of the morning will find your bloodshot eyes illuminated by a computer screen as your trembling finger hovers over, than touches the button that seals your bid of $41,949.63 for the last remaining unsold pair of Con Denti pedals in the world. All your things will be sold or repossessed, your wife will leave you, your children will abandon you for squandering their inheritance, you will be thrown out of your hovel whose stoop you will be forced to haunt until the day the man in brown drops a small, surprisingly heavy package into your filthy, shaking claws. Cackling with demented glee, you'll stumble to a nearby alley where you have stashed your last possessions: the Frejus, and a Campagnolo pedal wrench, unused, still in its rosewood presentation case lined with purple velvet.
Later, your body will be found, your face frozen in an expression of deepest despair. In your hand, a lump of coal. Scrawled on the wall above your lifeless form, the cryptic words, "French thread!!!"
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Michael Shiffer
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