Re: [CR]What was your best deal ever?

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot)

From: <"brianbaylis@juno.com">
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 15:37:29 GMT
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]What was your best deal ever?


Listmembers,

Top this! I was given (FOR FREE) a complete (minus wheels) 1951 Rene Her se ladies bike. It was going to be put out at a yard sale here in San Di ego several years ago and one of my friends rescued it. He then gave it to me, knowing my passion for ladies bikes and knowing also that I would do right by her in putting it back into service. It's full chrome, but not in excellent condition that way, but still original and one of the m ost remarkable pieces of craftsmanship I've ever seen in a vintage bicyc le. She's magnificent. Someday soon, I will get her back on the road.

Don't bother asking wheather she's for sale. Most deffinitely NOT!

Brian Baylis
La Mesa, CA


-- Wayne Davidson wrote:


Hi all, probally one of the better deals over the last 12 months, winnin g a Campagnolo Rally RD, in a local auction, for a much better price than on

eBay, and to find out when I recieved it, that it was NOS as well. So no w that I have a user I don't have to worry about wearing this one out........wayne davidson Invers NZ........

PS, also winning a cheap Galli SC crankset on eBay UK, and getting it delivered in person from a good freind in the UK, best Xmas present I go t last year....

on 3/11/05 5:44 PM, Mark Stonich at mark@bikesmithdesign.com wrote:
> At 11/2/2005 05:41 PM -0700, Derek Vandeberg wrote:
>> Last question, of the cocktail party variety, which will probably sta rt
>> an interesting thread. What was your best deal ever?
>
> Near the end of the last day of a 3 day garage sale I spotted an
> early '60s Condor with Gran Sport Campi derailleurs and
> shifters. Clearly not a high end frame, but very nice looking and
> apparently all original. Pencil thin seat stays, and the lower end
> of the fork blades are the thinnest I've ever seen. Pumpkin orange
> with a royal purple panel on the seat tube.
>
> The woman running the sale says. "You can have that for hauling it
> away. Nobody wants it because of the funny tires (tubulars) and that
> hard seat (Brooks B15)"
>
> Mark Stonich;
> Minneapolis Minnesota
> http://mnhpva.org
> http://bikesmithdesign.com