Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No dispute about the first one as I have worked on and driven many Morgans and love them! The +4 is wonderful but the +8 is absolutely unbelievable! Ok it is a modern Morgan as it has four wheels and all but we can make some exceptions to our Ludite ways ....no? I would also include the Citroën 2CV as my car of choice when it rains. Would you extend the second to include fillet brazed steel? I love steel bicycle frames but think that the recent incorporation of beer can technology has improved the ride quality significantly. I am having a frame made to replace the one a kind member of the proletariat recently liberated from me. A tight (lots of pedal overlap) cyclocross frame with Columbus foco tubing for the seat and down tubes, Reynolds 853 top tube, and curly seat stays from I do not know where. REALLY REALLY sweet ride. I can hardly wait. It will have track drop outs but with a derailleur hanger added so I can switch to fixed or single speed as well. I am going STI and nine speed (Canon and Nikon equivalents in the bicycle world) so I fear you will shun me if we ever meet! I have to disagree about your choice of Leicas as well! No problem with the M2 but the M4 should be the M4-2! The M4 and M3 have too much cache and I want to be pitied as well as envied. "My God he has a Leica!! Oh....it is just a M4-2. Poor chap, could not afford a real Leica." Cheers, John Collier No regrets about trading my M4-2 on a TTL but I do miss the scorn...sigh. > From: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu> > > I'd drive a Morgan if I had the choice. I have > a vintage lugged steel Italian bicycle.