My wife has always liked C&V, because that is all we have ever owned. We met at the start of our freshman year at UCLA, and her first bicycle was my 1962 Bianchi Corsa. She didn't like my "toe traps" and drop bars, so I set her up with regular Peugeot UO-8 style "rat trap" pedals and UO-18 flat bars, with Schwinn Twin Stik stem shifters. I subsequently built the red UO-8 from a bare frame, with TA Professional cranks, aluminum rims, and my old SunTour V-GT derailleur, and the same flat handlebars. When she became too intimidated by traffic, she discovered trail riding and gravel grinding on my Schwinn Project KOM-10 mountain bike, so I had to build her a mountain bike.
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069