You need to re-read THIS post: I'm so slow...

Re-read it.........I haven't even finished it.

The real last page.

https://home.att.net/~cecw/lastpage.htm

Then shooting broke out.

Well, just to keep this thing going, I have an off-off-topic query for Mr. Cross Chain, Esq. :

Do your Campagnolo Ergo Shifters work well with the front Shimano derailleur and Sugino cranks of your Rivendell...without a Shiftmate, or ramp and pin rings, in front???

This is not the thread for serious questions. You have been reported to the Frivolity Enforcement Moderator.

If it was not a serious question, kindly disregard this message. Thank you.

My favorite player when I was a kid growing up in Cleveland. My hero! I still rue the day they traded him to Detroit and started the 30 year curse!

I consider all this history that is coming up on this thread also less than frivilious...........or more than frivilious... well at least the thread is continuing and that is the gest of the whole thing. ... ... ...may the thread that sews this thread together be sown by the seeds of those who are interested in bikes, bike technology, bike riding, biking fun, just all aroung good bikeing sense..... .... ... . . . ... ...peace

When did Rocco become Rocky?

That's the only name I ever knew him by. I believe Rocco was his "given" name. He was the most popular player on the Cleveland Indians roster and there was a near riot when, just before the start of the season, they traded him for some guy named Harvey Kueen. Almost as bad as the Red Sox trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees.

What are you talking about? I presume these are people that achieved something in the US at one time but just because they were big names in the world of Disco dancing or some other frivolous activity- It does not mean that the rest of us understand what you are talking about.

Woo Pig Sooiee!

'Nuff Said!

If it's any consolation Deeg, we loved him in Detroit too. Even my transplanted Noo Yawk Yankees fan grandmother, who regarded anyone wearing a Detroit uniform as subhuman, had a soft spot for him.

Stapfam: We're talkin' baseball. Kind of like cricket, but less boring.




(Wait for it......5...4...3...2...1.....)

Oh Baseball. That's similar to our game of Rounders where you have a stupid round bat to hit a ball with. Difference is that you have turned it into a Professional sport and Rounders is still an organised Kids game over here.

My nephew just turned 4 the other day, and he's nuts about baseball. I'm dreading the day when one of his favorite players on the Orioles changes teams...which happens so often now, you can set your watch by it. I'm all for free agency, but it's a shame for the kids.

That would look good on a pit - WOOF!

This thread is getting too far down in the listing.
It is getting light earlier in the day...I can do my rides in the morning before things get started... ... ... ..peace

Earliest bicycling influence?

It would have to be my older brother on his J.C. Higgins 1 speed. It was a 1957 model, dark red, with white graphics and other than that pretty standard, no tank or headlamps. I remember how cool it was that they wrote the name into the crankshaft. But more importantly, I remember watching him ride to the end of the block and then turn the corner and disappear. More than anything that told me that you could go anywhere on a bicycle. Tricycles were never good enough after that.

But it was Curious George who got my courage worked up enough to borrow a friends bike and spend an hour or so till I could ride that Schwinn Pixie by myself.

paradise lost

Anyone who trys to export "Bangers and Mash", "Bubble and Squeak" and "Spotted Dick" is going to have to be more understanding about our sports.

Yeah baby, soft gray shoes! I wonder if road cleats can be mounted to them?

By the way, that is a picture of the guy who invented the aluminum Christmas tree. So far as I know, it was never offered in steel, CF or Ti.

I can think of nothing to contribute at this point.

That pic of the aluminum Christmas tree needs to be in color, and include the rotating wheel of various colors of cellophane in front of the spotlight aimed at the tree.