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Old 09-25-08 | 02:58 PM
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Bikes: '69 Raleigh DL-1, '72 Paramount, '75 Eisentraut, '80 A-D Vent Noir II, '82 A-D Inter 10, '83 Motobecane Grand Touring, '83 Stumpjumper, '84 Masi GC, '87 Recherche, '87 Tesch 101, '88 Tesch S-22, '88 Davidson...

If I had a Confente or some other bike of historical significance, no, I doubt I would ride it. I do think there's a cerebral appreciation to those bikes without having to put them on the road. I don't know that I would own one just for cerebral appreciation though so it's perhaps a moot point. I have an '84 Zeus that's never been on the road so I choose not to be the own to deflower it. That's really the only one and the the only reason that stays on rollers and that's just to keep the parts moving. Everything else—including the Simonetti Masi and the Kiefel 7-Eleven—get taken out, at least occasionally. Then again, so does the CSL.

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