[CR]"Declining sliding-hub market - what has happened?"

(Example: Framebuilders:Norman Taylor)

From: <themaaslands@comcast.net>
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org (Classic Rendezvous)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:29:06 +0000
Subject: [CR]"Declining sliding-hub market - what has happened?"

Aldo wrote earlier:
> Is this the best time to buy those Cambio Corsa and Cambio Paris-Roubaix
> bikes? Prices have fallen since last year. Has supply exceed demand?
>
> Bikes which last year were selling for $1200 to $2100 seem to have gone back
> to pre-"Vintage Velos" prices i.e. well below $1000. The restored Ancora
> which sold this June for 500 Euros (about $625) might have fetch twice that
> or more last year. Weren't the frankenbolt qr levers and 3-piece hubs as
> high as $300 in 2002?

I too have watched as these bikes have gone down in value here in the US, but at the same time their values are oddly going up in Italy. Given that Italy is the source of virtually all of these bikes, I therefore believe that the drop in value cannot last.

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Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ