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Fred 'Italian' bike ads in VeloNews.
Has anyone seen those full page 'buy Italian' bike advertisements in
VeloNews? The bikes always look dorky, and the 'riders' even more dorky. One shot shows an attractive young lady with a no-name bike with vintage ergopower levers deep drop and reach bars and like a 44cm width. She's in jeans and I guess we're supposed to believe this is her campus bike , yeah right. Since the bikes pictured are so ugly, and very un-Italian looking, I wonder if they're really from the Italian bike builders association or whatever they call themselves. I assert the ads are from Taiwan , and they're hoping to make us not like Italian bikes. :-) |
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:14:46 -0500, John Rees wrote:
Has anyone seen those full page 'buy Italian' bike advertisements in VeloNews? The bikes always look dorky, and the 'riders' even more dorky. One shot shows an attractive young lady with a no-name bike with vintage ergopower levers deep drop and reach bars and like a 44cm width. She's in jeans and I guess we're supposed to believe this is her campus bike , yeah right. Are the pictures anything like http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/cycling/mm.jpg ? -- Firefox Web Browser - Rediscover the web - http://getffox.com/ Thunderbird E-mail and Newsgroups - http://gettbird.com/ |
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:14:46 -0500, John Rees wrote:
Has anyone seen those full page 'buy Italian' bike advertisements in VeloNews? The bikes always look dorky, and the 'riders' even more dorky. One shot shows an attractive young lady with a no-name bike with vintage ergopower levers deep drop and reach bars and like a 44cm width. She's in jeans and I guess we're supposed to believe this is her campus bike , yeah right. Are the pictures anything like http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/cycling/mm.jpg ? -- Firefox Web Browser - Rediscover the web - http://getffox.com/ Thunderbird E-mail and Newsgroups - http://gettbird.com/ |
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"Ewoud Dronkert" wrote in message ... | On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:14:46 -0500, John Rees wrote: | Has anyone seen those full page 'buy Italian' bike advertisements in | VeloNews? The bikes always look dorky, and the 'riders' even more | dorky. One shot shows an attractive young lady with a no-name bike with | vintage ergopower levers deep drop and reach bars and like a 44cm width. | She's in jeans and I guess we're supposed to believe this is her campus | bike , yeah right. | | Are the pictures anything like | http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/cycling/mm.jpg ? Nope. I wish. I probably wouldn't have even noticed the bike if they looked like that! |
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"Ewoud Dronkert" wrote in message ... | On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:14:46 -0500, John Rees wrote: | Has anyone seen those full page 'buy Italian' bike advertisements in | VeloNews? The bikes always look dorky, and the 'riders' even more | dorky. One shot shows an attractive young lady with a no-name bike with | vintage ergopower levers deep drop and reach bars and like a 44cm width. | She's in jeans and I guess we're supposed to believe this is her campus | bike , yeah right. | | Are the pictures anything like | http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/cycling/mm.jpg ? Nope. I wish. I probably wouldn't have even noticed the bike if they looked like that! |
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Ewoud Dronkert wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:14:46 -0500, John Rees wrote: Has anyone seen those full page 'buy Italian' bike advertisements in VeloNews? The bikes always look dorky, and the 'riders' even more dorky. One shot shows an attractive young lady with a no-name bike with vintage ergopower levers deep drop and reach bars and like a 44cm width. She's in jeans and I guess we're supposed to believe this is her campus bike , yeah right. Are the pictures anything like http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/cycling/mm.jpg ? I might have to Deep Drop the drawers. |
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Ewoud Dronkert wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:14:46 -0500, John Rees wrote: Has anyone seen those full page 'buy Italian' bike advertisements in VeloNews? The bikes always look dorky, and the 'riders' even more dorky. One shot shows an attractive young lady with a no-name bike with vintage ergopower levers deep drop and reach bars and like a 44cm width. She's in jeans and I guess we're supposed to believe this is her campus bike , yeah right. Are the pictures anything like http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/cycling/mm.jpg ? I might have to Deep Drop the drawers. |
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"gwhite" wrote in message ... Ewoud Dronkert wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:14:46 -0500, John Rees wrote: Has anyone seen those full page 'buy Italian' bike advertisements in VeloNews? The bikes always look dorky, and the 'riders' even more dorky. One shot shows an attractive young lady with a no-name bike with vintage ergopower levers deep drop and reach bars and like a 44cm width. She's in jeans and I guess we're supposed to believe this is her campus bike , yeah right. Are the pictures anything like http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/cycling/mm.jpg ? I might have to Deep Drop the drawers. Do you think she knows that the post has to be greased before insertion? |
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"gwhite" wrote in message ... Ewoud Dronkert wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:14:46 -0500, John Rees wrote: Has anyone seen those full page 'buy Italian' bike advertisements in VeloNews? The bikes always look dorky, and the 'riders' even more dorky. One shot shows an attractive young lady with a no-name bike with vintage ergopower levers deep drop and reach bars and like a 44cm width. She's in jeans and I guess we're supposed to believe this is her campus bike , yeah right. Are the pictures anything like http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/cycling/mm.jpg ? I might have to Deep Drop the drawers. Do you think she knows that the post has to be greased before insertion? |
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B. Lafferty wrote:
"gwhite" wrote in message ... Ewoud Dronkert wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:14:46 -0500, John Rees wrote: Has anyone seen those full page 'buy Italian' bike advertisements in VeloNews? The bikes always look dorky, and the 'riders' even more dorky. One shot shows an attractive young lady with a no-name bike with vintage ergopower levers deep drop and reach bars and like a 44cm width. She's in jeans and I guess we're supposed to believe this is her campus bike , yeah right. Are the pictures anything like http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/cycling/mm.jpg ? I might have to Deep Drop the drawers. Do you think she knows that the post has to be greased before insertion? Whazzat? I thought you'd have a "carbon" post!!!!!! -- Perre I gave up on SPAM and redirected it to hotmail instead. |
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