Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/31

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Subject: [Leica] Morgans + steel framed bicycles : OT-nothing to do with Leicas...OK, just a little bit of Leica content
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:42:49 -0700

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.

Replies: Reply from "Ken Iisaka" <ken@iisaka.org> (Re: [Leica] Morgans + steel framed bicycles : OT-nothing to do withLeicas...OK, just a little bit of Leica content)