Further and further from topic, but indulge me, it might add a bit of spice to your dull lives: I had to sell the upscale Sprite, and was propositioned by several brothers of my father's secretary, a statuesque, yough ex-Punjabi Sikh woman whom I knew because she always intercepted my phone calls to my father. She told her brothers about my sale, and they came out to our house to view and negotiate, but we could not agree on a price. While most Indians of that place and time were small by corn-fed American Anglo standards (my father was 6'2" English/Scotts-Irish Southern American, tho' enlightened -- he married a Filipina in 1954), her brothers were even more majestic than she, easily as tall or taller than my father, and stout -- I daresay, even on the vague evidence of 50-year-old memories, well north of 200 lb. With turbans and full beards, my 18-year-old self found it difficult to tell them "no."
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 3:43 PM Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... (I'd earlier -- ~1972-1973 -- owned a much more upscale Sprite, > bought from an expat, with steel drop bar, Weinmann centerpulls and levers, > B15 saddle, 14-28 and 48-44 cottered crank, with rattrap pedals with clips, > and *tout Delrin* Simplex drivetrain -- the plastic derailleurs stood up > well to the hundreds of miles I put on it before being forced to sell when > I had to leave Kenya for So Cal college.) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgsyTYamg%2BsZXwpOg6w2TVT%3D_C9CkzL_Y-AVqqRpgT9onQ%40mail.gmail.com.
