01-08-2007, 08:58 AM
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#8 (permalink)
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| | Re: Swap Meet at the LA Velodrome Jan 28
Slack wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:33:47 -0800, Scott Gordo <blubberpuss@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >
> > Ride-A-Lot wrote:
> >> Slack wrote:
> >> > I have no idea how good or bad it will be, so don't blame me. The
> >> > velodrome is right next door to the Home Depot Center, Cal State
> >> > Dominguez and just a couple miles from the 110 & 91 fwy intersection.
> >> > I'm going to try yo make it because I'd like to pick up a little 48cm
> >> > track bike. Hopefully they'll be some mtb stuff, too.
> >> >
> >> > http://lavelodrome.org/Events/20070128SwapMeet.pdf
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Be careful and don't go sight seeing when you get off the freeway;
> >> > although the velodrome isn't in a real bad area, Compton and Watts are
> >> > just up the street. I wouldn't want to hear about you overly white
> >> > people get'n shot.
> >> > --Slack
> >>
> >> And you'll just use you east LA Chicano slang on any perpetrators that
> >> come by? Better pick up a rainbow skull cap. That'll confuse them.
> >>
> >> Get there early if you want the good stuff. The one in eastern PA was
> >> only good for the first hour.
> >>
> >> --
> >> o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o
> >> www.schnauzers.ws
> >
> > Trexlertown? First hour AND last hour.
> >
> > First hour you can get all the used, weird, interesting stuff from they
> > guys selling stuff on top of a sheet on the grass. Last hour is when
> > you hit the bike shops who don't want to have to put that stuff back
> > into the truck.
> >
> > It's a good time.
> >
> > /s
> >
>
> Excellent points... thanks for tip.
> --
> Slack
That's how it works in Trexlertown, anyway. No experience with the Home
Depot deal, but I'll bet there'll be lots of interesting vintage steel
stuff in So Cal that wouldn't survive the Northeast's weather.
/s
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