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Originally Posted by colker
There is one aspect of Dario which is never mentioned: the lack of pretention. Everybody talks about him as an "artist" and his bikes as "art" on 2 wheels while DP knew much better than that. He knew there was difference in nature between his frames and a Rothko or Jean Arp paint, a song by Caetano Veloso or Miles Davis. He didn´t parade himself as a pompous artist, He infused his production of bicyle masterpieces w/ information from painting, music, poetry and politics... He felt the need to be part of the big universe rather than stay as a semigod in the guetto of bike obsessed nerdship. He risked himself to be misunderstood. He was himself and that´s all he wanted to be... free. That is his lesson.
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FWIW, it seems like a big part of the appeal of the bikes was that Dario was such a neat guy as a person. I don't think I've missed out on anything by not having had a bike he built, but I do feel like I missed something by having never met him and had a change to hang out with him.