[CR] What do you ride?

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From: "Jon Crate" <Jon@FAI.US>
To: "'classicrendezvous'" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 22:26:23 -0500
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Subject: [CR] What do you ride?


In good weather I commute on my 1967 PX-10 disguised as a Gazelle: http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PAA6CL76ABHV3V64Y6B35E6PEM/album/photos/357165

In bad weather I commute in my Isuzu Rodeo - am I a fair weather friend?

If I feel nostalgic (rare) it is the Sante Fe (since 1978)

When I go off road I ride a steel Marin Eldrige dressed out in XTR I'm building up an 853 Jamis Dragon/Marzocchi hardtail with XTR and disk brakes

Waiting for paint: Masi Team 3V, 1963 Paramount, Olmo, Carlton Cobra

Waiting for build up: Green Masi Team 3V, PZ-10, Bianchi Veloce (lugged steel), Bianchi Stelvo (lugged steel), Ti Speedwell

Waiting for spring: Jon M. Crate Marietta, Georgia USA

-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of marie autrey Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 5:39 PM To: classicrendezvous Subject: [CR] What do you ride?

I used to have a 62 Cinelli with a color-matched Altenberger group that I had high hopes for, what with the Cinelli mystique and the oddball parts. But I found myself worrying about it all the time, so I sold it.

The mile-hog is a Mexican-built Benotto, with all the house-brand parts tossed away and rebuilt as a road fixie. Or at least it was, until I hit a curb at full-tilt boogie and pushed the front wheel back so far the cranks won't turn. It may have been a beater, but it was a fine, good-handling beater, and I didn't have to worry about leaving it locked to a pole, even in New York CIty.

I'm conducting auditions for its replacement now. My barely off topic Ciocc may get fix-ated, if a 753 road frame appears in my mailbox. (58 or so cm, hint hint hint.) marie autrey ridingrabbit@earthlink.net Tucker, Georgia (little country town enveloped by Atlanta) USA 678 296 0847 http://www.ridingrabbit.blogspot.com