[crispus]

Believe me, I hope my concern here turns out to be as overblown as this year's fear of the police crackdown at Gasworks Park (and yes, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, it was I who introduced that doubt, though in my defense I was only echoing SPD and official Fremont Fair warnings), but I'm afraid this thread's best moments will be retrospective, since there seems to be a growing trend, even among the riders themselves, to frown upon those who are less than fully painted. There still remains, thank heaven, a double standard, whereby men undecorated are far more likely than their female counterparts to be ostracized, but will we ever see the return of examples as sterling as these, from the halcyon early days? I wonder...