Pedals Past
I live for the CABE
talking about shipping i am not sure that they didnt do the right thing sending it whole if it came from Switzerland. The bike had to have gone through customs, the risk
of them unwrapping every part to inspect/search and losing or forgetting to put it back in the box might have been greater than the damage at least you got all the pieces to make fiberglass molds from back. I know international insurance doesnt exist after a certain point.
Not to persist on a subject but in the last week there was a thread on facebook by some of the same hobby players from the cabe that either chined in on this thread or “liked” it that were ranting about parting a girls bike and how hobbist who do that or dont leave examples as is were whinning in the knitting circle about how terrible it is. I find it kind of hypocritical to be running your mouth about it but then aplodding a destresseration and repopping in fiberglass. So i am going to take it that when I supported taking some rare parts or incorrect ones and using them to complete a bike missing something wont have the knitting circle drama anymore. This thread should clear my name even though i cannt really say i have ever broke down a bike, but have barred the criticism of. buying original parts and installing them or upgrading them on bikes i have “owned” or using a missing relic in the form of a repop. The hobby has spanked the likes of Steve Castelli Don Vaughn Jerry Williamson and even Larry Busch over this topic throughout the years.
I got it off my chest.... mostly by reading the comments and reviewing the ”likes”from not only this thread but many in the past . No need for apologies to or from me or the pioneers who have put together or found the items we so cherrish and use for reference I raise my hand in guilt but not hypocrisy. Simply said the definition of an expert is one who likes to hear himself talk. I spoke up because this thread and the recent facebook thread after serious thought and study made me an expert on the subject of the hobbies bull dung.
By the way jafco already has the parts to this bike and many others available in fiberglass. Its a credit to him to make the stuff available for the poor guys that dont fit or can afford to knitt with the rest of us.
Good luck with this project in twenty years i wont be alive to buy it as an original paint only one found built deluxe ....... they never came with deluxe airflow rack and guard or an unmolested example let alone Arrow literature to confirm. I ve had maybe six restored that way and one orig I put together so I am going to “like” the thread and being an airflow admirer cannt wait to see the end product.
of them unwrapping every part to inspect/search and losing or forgetting to put it back in the box might have been greater than the damage at least you got all the pieces to make fiberglass molds from back. I know international insurance doesnt exist after a certain point.
Not to persist on a subject but in the last week there was a thread on facebook by some of the same hobby players from the cabe that either chined in on this thread or “liked” it that were ranting about parting a girls bike and how hobbist who do that or dont leave examples as is were whinning in the knitting circle about how terrible it is. I find it kind of hypocritical to be running your mouth about it but then aplodding a destresseration and repopping in fiberglass. So i am going to take it that when I supported taking some rare parts or incorrect ones and using them to complete a bike missing something wont have the knitting circle drama anymore. This thread should clear my name even though i cannt really say i have ever broke down a bike, but have barred the criticism of. buying original parts and installing them or upgrading them on bikes i have “owned” or using a missing relic in the form of a repop. The hobby has spanked the likes of Steve Castelli Don Vaughn Jerry Williamson and even Larry Busch over this topic throughout the years.
I got it off my chest.... mostly by reading the comments and reviewing the ”likes”from not only this thread but many in the past . No need for apologies to or from me or the pioneers who have put together or found the items we so cherrish and use for reference I raise my hand in guilt but not hypocrisy. Simply said the definition of an expert is one who likes to hear himself talk. I spoke up because this thread and the recent facebook thread after serious thought and study made me an expert on the subject of the hobbies bull dung.
By the way jafco already has the parts to this bike and many others available in fiberglass. Its a credit to him to make the stuff available for the poor guys that dont fit or can afford to knitt with the rest of us.
Good luck with this project in twenty years i wont be alive to buy it as an original paint only one found built deluxe ....... they never came with deluxe airflow rack and guard or an unmolested example let alone Arrow literature to confirm. I ve had maybe six restored that way and one orig I put together so I am going to “like” the thread and being an airflow admirer cannt wait to see the end product.
