Re: [CR]Will Aluminum bikes ever really be future classics?

(Example: Framebuilders:Jack Taylor)

Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:36:17 -0700
To: LouDeeter@aol.com, "classicrendezvous-bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Scott Goldstein" <sgpnet@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Will Aluminum bikes ever really be future classics?
In-Reply-To: <66.11cfccd7.288dfaca@aol.com>


Lou.

I couldn't disagree more. My SR900was my first real bike and I just loved it in the early 80's, having had nothing to compare with it. Years later when I started riding older "vintage" steel bikes, I sold the thing on Ebay as fast as I could. My bones and teeth just rattled away on it. I did the Lighthouse Century ride on it and the bike was so stiff and so uncomfortable, I never rode it again.

cheers

scott "SR 900, only a classic to my orthodontist" goldstein

At 03:10 PM 7/23/2001, you wrote:
>rabbitman@mindspring.com writes:
> > Sure, as unlikely as that seems, a high quality modern Aluminum bike
> will be
> > a future classic. The question is can you ride them for 15 or 20 or 25
> > years, and reasonably expect that they will have functional frames for a
> > future investor?
> >
> > I suspect the 70s boron stiffened Klein frames will always command good
> > prices. I've got the first year Cannondale SR-900 racing bike with
> > Campagnolo Super Record/Nuovo Record and over 30,000 miles on it. Still
> > rides like it was new and I bought it in 1984. Not sure whether they are
> > classics in the sense of lugged frames, but certainly they hold a spot in
> > cycling history for breaking the mold. And, despite all the claims for
> > beating you to death because of super stiffness made against the
> > Cannondales, mine had as nice a ride as most of my steel frames and it was
> > stiffer and lighter for climbing as well. Lou Deeter, "the SR-900 may be
> > out to pasture, but....."
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