Rod Kronenberg wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone might venture a guess on the value of a "like new" Alan Super Record? The components and the bike virtually look like new. It's a small frame, around 50cm and the components are either Nuovo Record or Super Record. I can't tell as the bike is hanging from the rafters in a LBS. I can just get a finger on the wheel!
Why, the arithmetic is easy for me: Add up the value of the parts, and subtract transaction costs and the distasteful task of finding someone to con into taking the Alan frame. :-)
I like aluminum. I have a few cannondales, and think it is the absolute right way to do a tandem, for example. I just regard the Alan as a design that brings out the worst in the material, with few of its benefits. Only a marketer or someone who believes that flexibility is a great viture would have designed an aluminum frameset with "conventional" tube diameters.
But, I hope you don't take my effort at humor as an invitation to start frame (material) wars. I was just thinking about the recipes for baked Zucchini: slice the Z longways, fill it with something good to eat. Bake the concoction, eat the filling and treat the Z as a container...
happy holidays!
harvey "cynic" sachs