50,000 frames is likely less than 4 years production of bikes with the Colnago name (12-14K per year according to the last numbers that I heard!) Compare this to perhaps the total production of Gios.
Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 7:56 AM Subject: [CR]picasso vs. confente
> of course, the best thing to do, from a selfish point
> of view, is to live NOT like confente, but like
> picasso: i.e., until you are 90, and producing,
> according to the biographies, 50,000 pieces of work.
>
> I won't get into the countless beautiful lovers thing.
>
> there are those (such as PP) who somehow can finesse
> the extraordinary prices at market and still produce a
> prolific amount of pieces.
>
> I wonder who the equivilient in the bike world might
> be. were one to say colnago, an artist or bicycle
> person might argue that the difference is that picasso
> never (or less often?) produced work for the sake of
> the market or production efficiency, as brian might
> suggest. I don't know.
>
> 50,000. if you do the math on that, it's, well, a lot
> of work, every day. even for a 90 year old guy!
>
> ricky garni
> carrboro, nc
>
>
>
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