Originally Posted by
unworthy1
"The Baron" is still in business? Wow, what a blast from the past!
If you're lucky maybe his wife (Marie?) will reply, she was usually the one more down to earth in my dealings with that duo, but who knows if they are still a couple.
Yeah it could be an adventure in nail-biting when Baron was working out of Benelux, then when he re-located to California (Santa Barbara and Santa Paula, perhaps other locales) he was slightly easier to connect with, at least for us in California.
If he's back in Benelux then all bets are off, IMHO!
Best of Luck!
Cecile. She did play a role in getting the local bicycle coalition going and bike Co-op.
Three locations in SB, one in Santa Paula. Went to the open house at the first location, stopped in at the State Street storefront, and thought - this is on the road to ruin. Place was called The Bici. Lots of frames, lots! But not high name recognition.
State Street at the time was probably $8 per square ft per month... The Santa Paula store was attractive but out of the way and the local traffic save maybe one or two local folk would be flat repairs. Totally stumbled onto it.
Then, vanished. Recently a fellow on the CR group probably bought up the contents of a storage unit that could not fit into the container for Europe.
A disappoint that the SB venture did not Go. SB is paradisio.