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Antti Salonen
Guest
While shopping for some parts for my Ergopower levers, I discovered a
nice looking old bike at the LBS. It's a Guerciotti road bike from the
early 1980's with what appears to be a complete Campagnolo Gran Sport
group set and a 5-speed freewheel. It's a lugged steel frame with a
pearly grey paintjob, a matching steel fork and also a black Guerciotti
quill stem.
I'm interested in buying the bike as it happens to be exactly my size at
54 cm and in great condition. The same shop originally sold the bike
and according to them it was not ridden much by the original owner and
never in the rain. The bike has no signs of rust anywhere and the
paintjob as well as the decals are as good as new. The original
aluminium tubular rims seem to be in fine condition and they even have
the original tubulars mounted on them, which also look fine. The shop
is asking 350 Euros for the bike, or $420 at the current exchange rate -
Does this sound like a fair price?
As the bike is almost as old as myself, I'm too young to have any first
hand experience with bikes this old or any of the components. How is
the Campagnolo Gran Sport group set? Is there anything else to look out
for? Although it's no doubt considered blasphemy, I might also be
interested in replacing the original tubular rims with new clincher rims
- Is the rim diameter close enough for brake adjustment?
I'll put a photograph of the bike online in a few hours, and it'll be
at:
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~as/pics/misc/guerciotti.html
-as
nice looking old bike at the LBS. It's a Guerciotti road bike from the
early 1980's with what appears to be a complete Campagnolo Gran Sport
group set and a 5-speed freewheel. It's a lugged steel frame with a
pearly grey paintjob, a matching steel fork and also a black Guerciotti
quill stem.
I'm interested in buying the bike as it happens to be exactly my size at
54 cm and in great condition. The same shop originally sold the bike
and according to them it was not ridden much by the original owner and
never in the rain. The bike has no signs of rust anywhere and the
paintjob as well as the decals are as good as new. The original
aluminium tubular rims seem to be in fine condition and they even have
the original tubulars mounted on them, which also look fine. The shop
is asking 350 Euros for the bike, or $420 at the current exchange rate -
Does this sound like a fair price?
As the bike is almost as old as myself, I'm too young to have any first
hand experience with bikes this old or any of the components. How is
the Campagnolo Gran Sport group set? Is there anything else to look out
for? Although it's no doubt considered blasphemy, I might also be
interested in replacing the original tubular rims with new clincher rims
- Is the rim diameter close enough for brake adjustment?
I'll put a photograph of the bike online in a few hours, and it'll be
at:
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~as/pics/misc/guerciotti.html
-as