So, I had decided not to attend any bike show any more since they are all 99% schwinn. But the bikes are not the problem, the judges are what get my blood pressure up since all they know is schwinn. So a friend of mine that owns this beautiful restored 46 rollfast begged me to go with him since he didn't want to feel like he was from another planet. So I decided to take my monark, rolly rrb build off bike and my kids 12" huffy. So one the judges sees the red monark from far away and signals the bike and start walking to the bike. When he gets there he says "WOW, what kind of schwinn is it?" So after using a breathing technique to bring down the blood pressure I took the time to bring him up to date with some history and then he said "really, too bad its not a schwinn" then he asked the same question about my friends rollfast and another history class had to be told. Then he said "too bad its not a schwinn" so at this time the breathing technique was not working at all. He looked at rolly and said "did you buy that at walmart" at that time a came to the conclusion that this guy was not worth the time. There where a total of around 145 bikes and out of those 145 there where 1 monark, 2 rollfast, 10 murray built bikes, 3 columbia, 30 huffy and the rest where schwinn, I almost forgot there was one worksman cycle cycle truck which the owner said was built on 1942, yeah right more like 2002, I mean it still had a perfect stock paint job. All the prizes went to schwinn bikes except for the oldest cycle truck which went to the "1942 worksman cycle cycle truck" and since they had no other choice they gave me the prize for the smallest bike. Stuff like this is just killing this sport. Although I have to say I feel good since almost 100 people took pictures off all my bikes and my friends bike. At one time I had a crowd explaining what was a monark and a rollfast. By the way, with so many schwinn around I didn't bother to take pictures,
Gary
