Re: [CR]Buying the classic bike brand new

(Example: Framebuilders:Jack Taylor)

Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 23:42:10 -0700
To: Philcycles@aol.com
From: "Joseph Bender-Zanoni" <jfbender@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: [CR]Buying the classic bike brand new
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <db.16297cdd.28628a69@aol.com>


My first Jim Redcay was ordered from Jim when he walked into the shop where I worked with a sample in 1973. $125 dollars and ten day delivery. Some of the components I put on it: Hi-E hubs, Conti 220 gram tires (now that was a tire), Bob Reedy pedals, Zeus Freewheel, Hatta alloy headset, a prototype Nitto stem drilled up the center with aluminium bolts. Boy was I heartbroken when that was stolen.

Joe

At 07:23 PM 6/20/01 EDT, Philcycles@aol.com wrote:
>
>In a message dated 6/20/01 3:19:59 PM, Roadgiant@cs.com writes:
>
><< Anyone else care to share the experience of buying a classic bicycle when
>it
>was new? Phil has shared his Colnago purchase from Velo, here's mine about my
>Bianchi.
> >>
>It wasn't a classic when I bought it, it was just a bicycle. And I wanted a
>Masi but didn't have a car to drive from Berkeley to Sugden & Lynch in Menlo
>Park to pick it up.
>Phil Brown