7 pound road bike

http://www.velonews.com/article/7303...und-road-bike-

On Mar 9, 9:49 pm, (Michael Baldwin) wrote:
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Too bad he got the wrong size.

...I knew this would generate something from Fogel Labs - Thanks for
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Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

Landotter writes

Too bad he got the wrong size.

Maybe he ordered it 3 blocks down the street from you

Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 22:49:50 -0400, (Michael Baldwin)
wrote:

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Dear Michael,

It sounds as if dwarf safety bicycles have managed to lose not quite
two pounds since 1895:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...d9776b77581c96

In 1889, a production James racing highwheeler weighed 11 lbs, less
that the £20 that it sold for.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

On Mar 9, 10:58 pm, (Michael Baldwin) wrote:
Landotter writes

Too bad he got the wrong size.

Maybe he ordered it 3 blocks down the street from you

Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

Nah, the LBS guys are retail retards, but veteran racers and wrenches
with wives that make 'em stock the dorky stuff. I love 'em anyways.
Put it this way: if you buy a length of brake housing, they'll throw a
couple ferrules and cable ends in the bag. That means something to me.

In article , says...
http://www.velonews.com/article/7303...und-road-bike-

....and if he did without brakes or gears he could have saved another 300+ g!

Michael Baldwin wrote:
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More weight could have been saved by cutting off the drops, as they are
so low as to be unusable unless the rider is more Stretch Armstrong than
Lance Armstrong.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

"Michael Baldwin" wrote in message
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It you stare it really really hard, it will start to dissolve.

Tom Sherman taking a much deserved break from the "foam hat and obama
did or didn't do" thread says;

More weight could have been saved by cutting off the
drops, as they are so low as to be unusable
unless the rider is more Stretch Armstrong than Lance Armstrong.
--
Tom Sherman

...but then it wouldn't look like an english racer...

Tom did I ever tell you my kids were hellions. They _broke_ their
Stretch Armstrong doll and hid it under the bed in their room. Seems
Stretch oozed a plasmazoid spew that ate a hole in the the burnt umber
shag. I attribute this ordeal to why the youngest repeated 4th grade
twice! At his high school graduation as he was accepting his diploma, a
sweet old lady behind us said, "Oh look. Even the janitor finally got
his diploma."

Best Regards - Mike Baldwin