[s-cars] diary of a bmw driver

[McCall, Randy]

Bill,

Now that's pretty cool...just the name alone evokes visions of a
six-beer line on the side of the tires...  On the subject of slippery,
check out the following link and be the first on your block...
http://velonews.com/article/77895/tech-report-the-campagnolo-11-speed-su
per-record-group

Eleven is Heaven is the title - yet another gear for go fast tight ratio
shiftiness, and more ti/CF to break that bulging bank account.

I still have my circa '74 Stella Tour de France bike hanging forlornly
in the garage.  First "race" bike for me back when it cost less than a
set of decent cranks from modern times!  Full friction shifting Campy
Nuevo Record and sew-ups and still weighed in at around 23 lbs.  Current
CF wonder bike is about 17... Saw the only other Stella I've seen in a
couple decades other than mine last weekend in Portland outfitted as a
fixed gear beater bike, but with original paint and decals.  Too cool.

As for the internal combusion ducs, I let my brother do that as a proxy
for the family thrill gene!  Super bike school and lots of track time
means he's figured out how to keep the rubber side down most of the
time.  Can't say my experiences were the same back in the day...
Unfortunately, wrt your new Duc, its not all downhill once you get older
- the hills get longer, steeper, and winds always seem to be headwinds;
go figure.  

-Randy
'01 Calfee Tetra Pro 
'07 DaVinci Carbon tandem (CF frame from Calfee)
'05 Santa Cruz Blur LT
'74 Stella Tour de France	
assorted other stuff
and a '95.5 S6 Avant

 

Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:43:09 -0500
From: "Bill Mahoney" <wmahoney at disk.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] diary of a bmw driver
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Dave (fka da bomb) clarified:
" O.K. - first Paulie boy, its DUCK not DUKE. sheesh...  Monster?  Gots
one
right now.

Who's getting one anyway?  Old Man Baloney?"

He he 
First of all, in honor of our late pal G Carlin, I now reefer to myself
as
"older" (aka not old;) 
That said,
Sorry to disappoint but it's a Duc of a different feather.
http://www.bianchiducati.com/images/Ducati-Bikes-900XR.jpg

Pizzo must have spiked the Chianti cause ala "Little Big Man" I have
apparently entered my "eyetalian period." 
This cycle frame drips Itttly.  Supposedly handmade in Italy, presumably
by
Italian hands.  With just a little nudge from CF/Ti Randy McCall and
WheelmanLee, I have slipped down another go fast mechanical slope of CF,
titanium and cnc'd aluminum.  
Having acquired this fine frame, it deserves other parts as worthly.
D'oh
d'oh dough.
Sunday I drove up to Milwaukee to pick up a '65 Bianchi from the
original
owner.  No tires, but chrome lugs, bellisimo!
Wife thinks it doesn't belong in the dining room.  She knows not yet of
the
Duc project.  D'oh
Issues.
Bill~la dolce vita poser for now~M