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Old 12-26-07 | 02:35 PM
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MajorA
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From: Eugene. Oregon

Bikes: '72 Bob Jackson; '82 Austro-Daimler Starleicht; '85 Scapin; '80 Peugeot PKN-10; '81 Trek 610; '87 Hunter Corsa; '72 Italvega and '75 Motobecane Grand Jubillee frames built into freewheel singlespeeds.

I don't have a picture, as the bike is long gone, but I do have a story.

I'm 6'4", and went to a Newport Beach PD aucition in 1984 to get a bike. As luck would have it, the 30 or 40 other attendees were seriously height-challenged; I mean, I was TOWERING. The cop running the auction wheeled a big gold Fuji out to be bid on - I never measured it, but it was the biggest bike I ever owned, I'd guess 66 cm - and this unfolded:

Cop: Do I hear five dollars?
Me: Five dollars!
Cop: Do I hear six?
Little guy in the crowd: (Somewhat meekly) Six?
Cop: Do I hear seven?
Me: SEVEN!
Cop: I really think we oughta let him have it, don't you?

That bike served me well for five years in beach weather, and utimately rotted away from the salt...
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