Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:42:49 -0700 John Collier <jbcollier@home.com> wrote: > 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! Actually, I can't--I have shimano 600 (at least it's friction...hehehe.) > > 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 No problem, I use an M4-P....but I don't have to "like" it, do I? . > > "My God he has a Leica!! Oh....it is just a M4-2. Poor chap, could not > afford a real Leica." Only Luggers would even notice....even photographers don't care about WHICH M-camera you use... > > Cheers, > > John Collier > > No regrets about trading my M4-2 on a TTL but I do miss the scorn...sigh. I actually am thinking about picking up another one (my third), good camera, cheap (~6-700 bux here in the US, good user condition) Thanks for the post! Walt > > > > > 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. >