There are only a few small things wrong with this bike:
1. Coppi's P-R bike used a steel stem, not the later aluminum Ambrosio Champion shown (see pics).
2. Coppi's P-R bike used the earlier brake levers, not the Universal 61/68's shown (see pictures).
3. Coppi's winning P-R bike had a Paris-Roubaix 1-lever shifter, not the 2-lever Cambiio Corsa shown (see photos).
4. The frameset is shorter than Coppi's winning P-R bike (see photos)!
Aldo Ross (rode Coppi's OTHER P-R bike to work last week... honest)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jerry & Liz Moos <moos@penn.com>
> To: Scott Goldstein <sgpnet@earthlink.net>
> Cc: classicrendezvous-bikelist.org <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Is this bike worth $28,842.58?
>
>
> > Well, who knows, if this really can be proven to be the bike on which
> > Coppi won the 1950 Paris-Roubaix, someone will be willing to pay that,
> > I'm sure. I'll bet a collector could be found to pay that for one of
> > the bikes Lance rode in the last two TdFs. I wonder what was done with
> > Lance's bikes? I'd think he should auction them off to support his
> > charities. You know, what would be really cool this year would be an
> > internet auction on OLN during the Tour, with the winner getting Lance's
> > bike. Liggett could announce each day who the current high bidder is.
> > There are still enough oil millionaires in Texas to make the bidding
> > really rich. And if the money went to one of Lance's charities to fight
> > cancer, I wouldn't mind seeing this.
> >
> > Provenance is everything.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jerry Moos
> >
> > Scott Goldstein wrote:
> >
> > > htttp://www.passpass.net/geminiani/fosto/index.htm