Originally Posted by
Kommisar89
Damn son! You must have been one of those rich kids
Only the well to do kids even got Varsinentals in my neighborhood. I can hear my father now, "What the hell do you need that expensive Italian (except he wouldn't have used the word Italian) crap for? It just gets you from point A to point B. What's wrong with a Sears bike?" Oh those were the days
Upper middle class, anyway, but several of my classmates were rich kids. I was trading up from my first bike, an early 1950s Schwinn middleweight with a 2-speed Bendix coaster brake hub, which I had bought for $15 from a friend.
When my brother and I got our $55 Bianchis, the first thing the kid next door asked was, "Are they Varsities or Continentals?"
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069