Don wrote:
> One thing that killed Raleigh/USA was the tendency to rip off their
> own brands. One year a "raleigh team" is a campy super record bike,
> and two years later it's right at the bottom of the line. sheesh.
> The Record Ace on Ebay is a 1979 model near to the bottom of the line.
> Only three rampar models were lower (rampar R1T, R-2, R-1027). See
> the 1979 record ace in my 1979 catalogue here:
>
> http://www.ece.ubc.ca/
>
> Item # 3635879263 is a junker bicycle. I hope that whoever is bidding
> $200 either really needs a fixed-gear, or they are trying to get back
> that golden bicycle that they had in their youth ...
Perhaps a close look at the bidding patterns and history of two neophyte bidders is more revealing.
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Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ