From back in the Erie days, Crescents were exotic bikes with horrible paint jobs and mediocre build quality, but a very good reputation for how they rode. Desirable in the part of the country that I lived in, but no better than a few French marques that were just as hard to get but had a better build quality. Therefore, nobody in the Presque Isle Bicycle Club bothered riding one.
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Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)