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To: Jack of All Trades who wrote (41956)	12/8/2000 10:04:32 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 44573

I used to try rollers now and then, kept wiping out. Haven't ridden, really, in over ten years I guess. It's a racing bike, very light. Klein was selling them hand-made at the time for $6,000 but I was able to get an early Performance frame. It was an unusual size, a 66 or 68...I do not recall exactly. He was just starting that line and had not built any that large so I sort of got a hand-made bike at a production bike cost. Aluminum, fully set up the bike weighs about 19 pounds. In those days aluminum was hard to work in terms of the joints. Most aluminum bikes had fugly looking welds and usually they cracked. But his look great and take a beating. I just bought the frame and built the bike from there. Took a long time to get everything just the way I wanted it. I have had two friends hit by cars Oddly, the reason why I bought the bike was because my attention was diverted while practicing with a partner for a Century and destroyed my Nishiki (and my thumb) slamming into a parked car. That left a mark.