In Saturday just passed, my wife and I, in the loaded to the nuts Honda Civic, set out for our winter travels to Winnipeg (for a few days) and then on to Jamaica. After closing up the cottage, we had one bag of garbage to throw away, so we stopped in at the Shuniah landfill site. There were four bikes there - three department store mountain bikes and an all chrome Torpado from the early seventies. I have owned several of these but, absolutely, hated leaving it sitting where I found it. There was just no room left in the car for anything as big as a bicycle.

I did call a friend, who likes to flip mountain bikes, about those at the dump. I doubt that he will bother to get the Torpado for me, but it was worth a shot. And, since I like pictures, here is one of the last all chrome Torpado that I built up...