I spent a big chunk of the weekend pulling security for the Lung Association's 'Trek Across Maine' fund-raiser, and checked 1400+ bikes out. Not counting 'bents and tandems, only a dozen or so were lugged steel, so few I can list them:
3 Miyatas (912, 215, 312) 2 Panasonics, 2 Shoguns, a Le Tour, a Dave Scott Ironman, a Warterford (!), a De Rosa, and a RB-1.
I got to talk to most of the riders a bit; the Le Tour was ridden by a gent a little older than I who had bought it new in 1974. The woman riding the Waterford made sure you knew what it cost in the first sentence of her conversion. And the young lady on the RB-1 had picked it up for $50 at a swap meet the week before. This was her first long ride on it, and she was talking about new pedals, tweeking the drivetrain, and maybe a Brooks. So perhaps there is still hope.
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