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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:44 pm |
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| Peter S. Horn |
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Stephan,
This was a fine thing to do. Fervently wish that this Professionnel was a 57-58 cm., rather than a 50. Well, maybe next time.
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| | | | | | | | | wishing and wanting... | | | | | |
| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:27 pm |
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I wish it was a 55-66!  |
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Chas.
SF Bay Area, CA USA
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1984 Criterium
1969 TdF
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1974 TdF
1984 TdF x 2 Bikes
1970 SC
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1984 Team Pro
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| | | | | | | | | Re: wishing and wanting... | | | | | |
| Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:32 am |
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| verktyg wrote: |
| I wish it was a 55-66! |
Hah Chas, sometimes I think you won't be happy until you have every year covered! |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:49 pm |
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| Peter S. Horn |
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[i What I liked about this model was that Gitane, as they had done in the past, gave us a really nice velo at a good price; $889.00, as I recall, in my area. The frame was a really nice Reynolds 531C model. No, the Campag. Victory groupset was not as fancy as, say, S.R., (fancier finish, a few ounces lighter) but personally, I probably (without checking) would not have been able to discern a difference. The bike was also available as a frameset, so one could have added another $360.00 or so for S.R. I got a quote in the range of about $1,250.00 for that setup, as I remember. It was an opportunity missed.
Peter H.[/i] |
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| | | | | | | | | Re: wishing and wanting... | | | | | |
| Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:06 am |
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| verktyg |
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| drummer5 wrote: |
| verktyg wrote: |
| I wish it was a 55-66! |
Hah Chas, sometimes I think you won't be happy until you have every year covered! |
There was a joke that went around about 10 years ago as to why the chicken crossed the road, excerpt:
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Karl Marx:
It was an historical inevitability.
Thomas de Torquemada:
Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.
Nietzsche:
Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.
Carl Jung:
The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.
Jean-Paul Sartre:
In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
Ludwig Wittgenstein:
The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road," and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.
Albert Einstein:
Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
Bhuddha:
If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
Salvador Dali:
The Fish.
Darwin:
It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
Ernest Hemingway:
To die. In the rain.
Jack Nicholson:
'cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.
Sappho:
Due to the loveliness of the hen on the other side, more fair than all of Hellas' fine armies.
Captain James T. Kirk:
To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
Machiavelli:
So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.
and so on...
but my favorite which applies to your question...
Colonel Sanders:
I missed one? |
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SF Bay Area, CA USA
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1984 Criterium
1969 TdF
1971 TdF
1974 TdF
1984 TdF x 2 Bikes
1970 SC
1971 SC
1972 SC
1984 SC
1984 Team Pro
1985 Professional
1990s Team Replica |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 5:28 am |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:55 pm |
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Colonel Sanders:
I missed one? 
I the spirit of historical preservation, I'm grabbing this one so that it doesn't get parted out!
At $500 bucks it wont last long. Campy Victory gruppos are selling for ~$450 on eBay!
It's WAY too small for me so if anyone is interested in it, we can work something out.
Contact me via Private Message. Use verktyg for my User Name.
Chas.' home for wayward Gitanes... 
Stephan, I'll PM you on this... Thanks. |
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SF Bay Area, CA USA
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1984 Criterium
1969 TdF
1971 TdF
1974 TdF
1984 TdF x 2 Bikes
1970 SC
1971 SC
1972 SC
1984 SC
1984 Team Pro
1985 Professional
1990s Team Replica |
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