Re: [CR]re: ebay outing: gios super record..sad

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Ideale)

From: "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net>
To: "john barron- velostuf" <jb@velostuf.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <002c01c4ed46$b2422730$6501a8c0@Velostuf>
Subject: Re: [CR]re: ebay outing: gios super record..sad
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:47:06 -0500



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From: john barron- velostuf
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 8:35 PM
Subject: [CR]re: ebay outing: gios super record..sad



> There's a reason why the market often times values parts more than the sum
> of the whole bike. It's because folks like you and me make that market.

Hmmm... I see an endless and pointless cycle (sorry!) at work here. Avid capitalists take lovely complete bikes strip them into bits and a frame and sell them for the highest price. Avid cycle collectors who cherish this stuff, buy the frame and then scour the market for all the right. parts that were on the bike in the first place!

There's an economics lesson here somewhere. But in the end, it's just nice bikes scattered to the wind. And I, for one, sure ain't going to view that with any charity. The people that strip bikes like this can find the cure for cancer and foster stray cats and I still hope they get a thorn in their brand new Veloflex Criterium.

And I agree wholeheartedly (wow!) with Chuck Schmidt about "bastardising" classic bikes with modern components. That's almost as teeth-gnashingly awful as parting out a machine in the first place.

To sum up: leave the bloody bikes alone!

Peter Kohler (who works for a non-profit)
Washington DC USA