On Aug 4, 9:59 am, Ozark Bicycle
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> On Aug 4, 11:00 am, "Tom \"Johnny Sunset\" Sherman"
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> <""sunsetss0003\"@invalida .com"> wrote:
> > Jay Beattie wrote:
> > > On Aug 2, 5:25 am, "Carl Sundquist" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> "Qui si parla Campagnolo-www.vecchios.com" <[email protected]> wrote in
> > >> messagenews:[email protected]...
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> > >>> Carl Sundquist wrote:
> > >>>> Never seen or heard of one before. One of a kind or a butchering of a
> > >>>> collector's item? Definitely a "drillium" butchering of the inner
> > >>>> chainwheel.
> > >>>>http://jacksonwoodworks.com/bike/pinarello/
> > >>> Home made, none of the 50th groups were triples altho triples from
> > >>> Campagnolo were not uncommon in and before 1984. Nice to see this
> > >>> group being used tho, Way too many stay in boxes and not used. I
> > >>> finally put mine onto a 2005 Merckx/Molteni MXLeader...nice stuff.
> > >> I used mine on a same era DeRosa as a fixed gear bike, particularly because
> > >> it seemed sacrilegious to the keep-it-in-the-box types.
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> > > Oh, you'll be sorry! Seehttp://www.campyonly.com/history/50th.html
> > > $10K for a low number mint set. Who are these people? -- Jay Beattie.
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> > Obviously, people who have more money than they have earned by labor.
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> Or, at least, more money than common sense.- Hide quoted text -
It's odd though, because some of these collectors have a lot of common
sense -- the ones that buy low and sell high. The people who buy this
stuff to keep it are doing it out of sentiment or love or art
appreciation, which defies common sense, at least in the $10K price
range.
I work with a kid who just bought a totally spotless 1983 Wizard,
which is a Masi knock-off by former California Masi builder, Brian
Baylis. It is all SR. The exact same stuff I was racing on that year
except with clinchers. This kid is like 24 years old -- he was barely
alive when this bike was built, and he knows nothing about bikes. He
just loved the way it looked and rode. He paid $2K at a consignment
shop that sort of caters to the sentimental Bohemian set (lots of
classic bikes for sale). I looked at that bike and though about how
much I always wanted a Masi and how cool that equipment looked, and I
got warm and fuzzy all over -- for about five minues. Then I realized
that I would swap out all of the bearing components after a year of
riding in the rain because the seals suck or are non-existent, that I
would probably break the NR crank like all of my other NR cranks, that
I would be frustrated by a six speed set up in my hilly 'hood, etc.,
etc. But it would look damn fine on my garage wall. -- Jay Beattie.
