Re: [CR] Bike prices, Cycling Chic vs vintage

(Example: Framebuilders:Tony Beek)

From: "Andrew R Stewart" <onetenth@earthlink.net>
To: <alexpianos@yahoo.fr>, <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, <oroboyz@aol.com>
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:51:17 -0400
Subject: Re: [CR] Bike prices, Cycling Chic vs vintage


All- I'd like to see that .12 posting... Maybe it is written by the .2 child (as in 2.2 children average per family).


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From: oroboyz@aol.com
To: alexpianos@yahoo.fr
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [CR] Bike prices, Cycling Chic vs vintage



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> <<.. Sorry Dale if this is off topic (this will be my OT contribution for
> 2010, come
> on, everyone is allowed one a year) but interesting to compare the price
> of some
> of these horrors with our classic beauties... >>
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> Alex, I think that last phrase gets you off the hook; just imagine all of
> us agonizing over a few hundred dollars to pay for some
> no-longer-available, craftsman-made, exquisitely-constructed,
> function-first bicycle... Then look at these positively silly machines in
> the Forbes article!
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> About the only problem I have with your message is this phrase regarding
> Off Topic posts: "Come on, everyone is allowed one a year..." As of this
> moment we have 1869 members. One Off Topic message each, per year, would
> mean 5.12 Off Topic messages per day, every year! Yikes!
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> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina USA
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: alex m <alexpianos@yahoo.fr>
> To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Wed, Jul 21, 2010 2:52 am
> Subject: [CR] Bike prices
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> http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/08/tour-de-france-technology-future-design-bikes_slide.html?partner=seealso
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> or http://tiny.cc/d76nk
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> Sorry Dale if this is off topic (this will be my OT contribution for 2010,
> come
> on, everyone is allowed one a year) but interesting to compare the price
> of some
> of these horrors with our classic beauties...
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> Alexander March
> Bordeaux
> France
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Andrew R Stewart
Rochester, NY