Joe, Paulie et all,
In my case owning a Cambio Corsa bikes does hark back
to the early 70's bike boom. In the back room at my
first job, the original Beverly Hills Bike Shop on
Robertson Blvd., there was this drawer of weird QR
levers with long extensions--I'm not making this up.
I moved them several times under my employer's order
to make room for a shipment of new goods. They
probably could have been mine for less than a song,
with a boss grateful for having a drawer of junk
relocated off the premises!
David Feldman
Vancouver, WA
> You're exactly right Paulie. The primary demand
> driver is nostalgia. One
> simple measure is which bikes from 1975 sell now for
> more than they cost
> new. Raleighs, Masis, Peugeots are well over.
> Ignoring inflation, every
> used product first declines, then reaches a bottom
> where many examples are
> thrown out, then the stuff that was particularily
> good or had a nostalgic
> base starts to climb.
>
> A whole different "level" (loaded word) is based on
> determining the
> historical place of various bikes which is very
> subjective. In my estimation
> the two most collectible bikes would be Bastide and
> Pop Brennan. More than
> the Masis of their day, quantum leaps in workmanship
> and performance. Used
> by elite racers who paid premium prices for the
> bikes. Now I think of the
> Bastides and Brennan's I passed up as "too much".
>
> Joe Bender-Zanoni
> Great Notch, NJ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paulie Davis" <paulieflt@email.com>
> To: <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>;
> <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 8:49 PM
> Subject: [CR]A steal on ebay - Cambrio Corsa
> Dalcezzi sold cheap
>
>
> > Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > > The majority of the collectors I've met are
> looking for 1970s and even
> > > 1980s bikes and an old soldier from the 1940s
> while interesting, is not
> > > something they have been obsessing over trying
> to find and possess.
> >
> > Is it because most of us weren't the *right age*
> kids when the 1940's
> bikes were new? Perhaps it is that the '40's bikes
> don't hearken back to
> those *wish I could afford that cool bike* teenage
> years for many of the
> classicrendezvousers? Maybe the *bike boom* itself
> had a little bit to do
> with it after all?
> >
> > Paulie Davis
> > Los Angeles
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