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Old 11-25-13 | 04:36 PM
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From: Should have made a left turn near Albuquerque.

Bikes: 1995 Trek 820, 1994 Trek 930 (project), 1/2 of a 1980s Colin Laing tandem

Originally Posted by Howard
Or a Specialized Expedition - much like the Trek, it is a cruel parody of what once was.

The old bike spoke to dreams of wide unrolling horizons, ending at the sea. The new sells no dreams, offers no visions. It's an appliance and while it maybe isn't a bad appliance, it colors all the previous images not with sepia, but with beige.
You very nearly brought a tear to my eye. My images of previous appliances will always be colored burnt orange, avocado green, and harvest gold, I'm afraid. Don't want anything tinted like that either.
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