Re: [CR]Maxicar hub on French ebay

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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 07:45:25 -0800
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Jan Heine" <heine93@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Maxicar hub on French ebay


As far as I remember, the front was low flange, the rear is high flange. Not a matched set then. If they were sold as such, the buyer who didn't study the photos carefully would be disappointed.

Jan Heine, Seattle
>Jeez
>
>I can see why one might want to part out a bike for maonetary
>reasons, but why in hell would you split up a pair of matched hubs???
>
>It makes no sense to me. Monetary or otherwise! I am often
>reluctant to sell one of a pair cause it leaves me with an orphan...
>
>Ken Sanford
>Kensington, MD
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
>To: <themaaslands@comcast.net>
>Cc: "Classic Rendezvous" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 7:39 PM
>Subject: Re: [CR]Maxicar hub on French ebay
>
>><themaaslands@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>About one week ago, this seller offered a front Maxicar hub for
>>>sale. I outed and neglected to bid on it because it was being sold
>>>as a singleton. The seller is now offering the rear mate to the
>>>hub that he already sold:
>>>
>>>http://ebay.com/<blah>
>>>
>>>It makes me wish that I had bid on the front hub. I seem to recall
>>>that it was a list member who then won the front hub, so you now
>>>have a chance to get a matched set.
>>
>>Might this be an instance where a better price may well have been
>>realised by selling the pair as one auction rather than two? "Orphan"
>>hubs and crankarms generally seem to get less at auction than half the
>>price for a pair in my experience.
>>
>>Kurt Sperry
>>Bellingham WA