Comments on: Thank You Dick Burke and Trek http://www.interbiketimes.com/2008/03/18/thank-you-dick-burke-and-trek/ The Official Blog Of Interbike Sat, 15 May 2010 01:30:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lance Camisasca http://www.interbiketimes.com/2008/03/18/thank-you-dick-burke-and-trek/comment-page-1/#comment-25838 Lance Camisasca Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:58:09 +0000 http://www.interbiketimes.com/thank-you-dick-burke-and-trek/#comment-25838 Rich & Chip, You whipper snappers.....I was selling these early Treks in retail when you two were buying them for your first "real" bikes. My first real bike was an early 70's Raleigh "Competition" with Zeus and TA compnents. Tubulars no less...I was 14. Lance Rich & Chip,

You whipper snappers…..I was selling these early Treks in retail when you two were buying them for your first “real” bikes.

My first real bike was an early 70’s Raleigh “Competition” with Zeus and TA compnents. Tubulars no less…I was 14.

Lance

]]> By: binny bin http://www.interbiketimes.com/2008/03/18/thank-you-dick-burke-and-trek/comment-page-1/#comment-25807 binny bin Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:54:18 +0000 http://www.interbiketimes.com/thank-you-dick-burke-and-trek/#comment-25807 RIP: Rich's Rapidfire Shifter! :) great article and so cool that your Dad got into cycling big-time. that picture of Chip with hair is rad, too! RIP: Rich’s Rapidfire Shifter! :)

great article and so cool that your Dad got into cycling big-time.

that picture of Chip with hair is rad, too!

]]> By: Cycling: A sport for body, mind and earth - Cult of the Bicycle http://www.interbiketimes.com/2008/03/18/thank-you-dick-burke-and-trek/comment-page-1/#comment-25795 Cycling: A sport for body, mind and earth - Cult of the Bicycle Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:38:29 +0000 http://www.interbiketimes.com/thank-you-dick-burke-and-trek/#comment-25795 [...] storage, rubber bands, and frame protection.Rich "Interbike" Kelly on Trek founder Dick Burke, who passed away last week.The U.S. Ambassador to Denmark is a cycling [...] [...] storage, rubber bands, and frame protection.Rich "Interbike" Kelly on Trek founder Dick Burke, who passed away last week.The U.S. Ambassador to Denmark is a cycling [...]

]]> By: Rich Kelly http://www.interbiketimes.com/2008/03/18/thank-you-dick-burke-and-trek/comment-page-1/#comment-25793 Rich Kelly Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:43:29 +0000 http://www.interbiketimes.com/thank-you-dick-burke-and-trek/#comment-25793 Going back aways, my earlier bikes were first a generic yellow Stingray-type bike with solid rubber tires and a green banana seat, then a brick red Schwinn Scrambler and finally a blue Maruishi ten-speed with a huge speedometer on the handlebars and battery-powered turn signal hanging from the saddle. These got me up to about age 12. The Trek was my first 'adult' bike. Going back aways, my earlier bikes were first a generic yellow Stingray-type bike with solid rubber tires and a green banana seat, then a brick red Schwinn Scrambler and finally a blue Maruishi ten-speed with a huge speedometer on the handlebars and battery-powered turn signal hanging from the saddle. These got me up to about age 12. The Trek was my first ‘adult’ bike.

]]> By: Poppa P http://www.interbiketimes.com/2008/03/18/thank-you-dick-burke-and-trek/comment-page-1/#comment-25792 Poppa P Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:49:36 +0000 http://www.interbiketimes.com/thank-you-dick-burke-and-trek/#comment-25792 Fun post, Rich. My first "real" bike was a yellow Schwinn three-speed, with a metallic yellowish/gold banana seat with chopper handle bars and a wheelie bar in the back. I earned it selling Christmas cards door-to-door as a Cub Scout while living in East Palo Alto, the "poor side of the tracks" to affluent Palo Alto, California, home to Stanford University. (Read more <a href="http://www.thebettyfactor.com/about/david-poppa-p-politis/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.) And back in the day, MTBs were still a dream and road bikes were NOT seen in my hood. Keep up the posts, Rich. David ("Poppa P") Politis P.S. My next bike (a Schwinn 10-speed that weighed something like 50-billion-pounds) didn't come 'til 1975 while I was in Washington, D.C. for a couple of years. Fun post, Rich.

My first “real” bike was a yellow Schwinn three-speed, with a metallic yellowish/gold banana seat with chopper handle bars and a wheelie bar in the back. I earned it selling Christmas cards door-to-door as a Cub Scout while living in East Palo Alto, the “poor side of the tracks” to affluent Palo Alto, California, home to Stanford University. (Read more here.)

And back in the day, MTBs were still a dream and road bikes were NOT seen in my hood.

Keep up the posts, Rich.

David (“Poppa P”) Politis

P.S. My next bike (a Schwinn 10-speed that weighed something like 50-billion-pounds) didn’t come ’til 1975 while I was in Washington, D.C. for a couple of years.

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