That's great, Frank. You're obviously valued. Jack
--- On Tue, 12/22/09, frank theriault <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: frank theriault <knarftheria...@gmail.com> > Subject: GESO - A Marinoni for Christmas (caution: Bike Pron) > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <PDML@pdml.net> > Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 3:57 PM > The bikies (especially Scott) on this > list will appreciate this one. > > A friend of my room mate's called me yesterday just before > I left for > work and asked if he could deliver something. He also > told me that > Mark (the room mate) left a message with him that I should > open the > Christmas card he left for me before he flew to Nova Scotia > for his > Christmas with the family. > > I opened the card which said (among other things), "enjoy > the frame". > I'm thinking, "what, a picture frame?" I couldn't > figure it out. > > The friend had recently stripped down his old Marinoni road > bike and > I'd been drooling over it. > > Five minutes after our conversation, there's the friend at > the door, > holding the Marinoni, big grin on his face, saying, "Merry > Christmas > from Mark!". > > Here's some quick and dirty pix of it: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/marinoni-for-christmas.html > > Marinoni has been making bikes in Montreal since the > '70's. They were > so prized that many Euro pros bought them, stripped the > paint off them > and rode them painted with the sponsor's bike colours and > logos on > them (a practice which doesn't happen in these days of > very > unique-looking carbon fibre frames). Marinonis (until > recently) were > all steel, Columbus tubed and lugged frames. > > All of them are hand-made by the original owner, Giuseppe, > who still > handmakes all the bikes with his name on it. Here's a > very > interesting little article on him: > > http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/business/story.html?id=2253a1ff-a288-45bf-9ada-e3ef22e91d56 > > http://tinyurl.com/yd8o6qs > > This one is from the early-to-mid 90's, made of Columbus SL > tubing. > It's not one of his premier models, but is a solid road > frame that > should last a long, long time (and it's my size - 56 > cm). As you can > see, it's a bit scratched, but not offensively so. > I've had a banged > up road bike sitting unused in a corner, so my winter's > project will > be to strip the parts off that one and have this beauty > ready for the > spring. > > A pretty damned amazing Christmas prezzie! > > cheers, > frank > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri > Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
