Re: [CR] Snazzy Sanki Sprint

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To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Snazzy Sanki Sprint
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:52:35 +0000


He didn't bid against himself - he tried to (and did) find the reserve..... Greg Parker Ann Arbor, Michigan Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:06:31 -0500 From: Joe Bender-Zanoni <joebz@optonline.net> To: "Charles T. Young" <youngc@netreach.net>, Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: Re: [CR]Snazzy Sanki Sprint

The fellow who repeatedly bid against himself to run it up to $99 must have been somehow preoccupied with the Crescent poster or such.

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles T. Young"
To: Classic Rendezvous
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:05 PM
Subject: [CR]Snazzy Sanki Sprint


> Now here is an offering that exemplifies just how entertaining eBay can be.
> A Japanese Sanki Sprint that appears to have been designed while someone was
> staring at a Crescent catalog:
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
> Note the orange paint and the checkerboard graphics. Seems as though they
> have missed that quintessential element of Crescent geometry wherein the
> toeclip overlap is incredible. I like the innovative crimping of the tubes;
> a precursor of Gilco, perhaps? That is one snazzy bike, no matter if is
> gaspipe and weighs better than 30 pounds.
>
> Charlie Young
> Honey Brook, PA