YaKnow- all this has me thinking. A little while back I offered a Guerciotti, all pantographed with a real Super Record group (titanium pedal and BB axle) to the list for $1000. No takers.
So once I get through my current private hell of another bar exam wilst turning 50, I think I will part this out as an experiment and report the results.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ
> the very first bike i sold on ebay, close to two years ago, was a
\r?\n> colnago master that i'd put together from scratch and owned for
\r?\n> well over 10 years. it was not a rare or unique frame, but it was
\r?\n> in beautiful condition, and some of the components were quite nice
\r?\n> and unusual.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> shortly after the sale, i started to see "my" components being
\r?\n> sold on ebay. it was hard to accept that my buyer didn't
\r?\n> appreciate the bike the way i had. in fact, i think that
\r?\n> philistine had bought my bike just to get his hands on the tires!
\r?\n> the tires were ultra-cool gommitalia yellow tread tubulars designed
\r?\n> by ferrari for colnago, complete with a tiny prancing horse logo -
\r?\n> way cool - and as far as i could tell, the frame and the tires were
\r?\n> the only things the guy did not sell off. i definitely felt some
\r?\n> sort of betrayal and resentment.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> but that was a long time ago. while not exactly jaded, these
\r?\n> days i have learned to accept and understand "parting out." it
\r?\n> wasn't a "significant" bike, and like lou said, it belongs to the
\r?\n> other guy, so i try not to judge him for what he does with it. for
\r?\n> all i know, he parted it out in order to finance other bike purchases.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> another thing i learned, is that I SHOULD'VE BEEN THE ONE TO PART
\r?\n> OUT THE BIKE! i would have done better than i did selling it as a
\r?\n> whole bike. if i had that bike to sell again, i wouldn't hesitate
\r?\n> to part it out.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> ray dobbins
\r?\n> miami florida
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Chuckdds@aol.com wrote:
\r?\n> I know this is silly, and I know that many of you have had this
\r?\n> happen. But
\r?\n> this the first time for me.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I spent 3 long years getting together all the parts needed to put
\r?\n> together a
\r?\n> NOS Alan Record. All super record parts, everything on the bike
\r?\n> NOS! I needed
\r?\n> some cash about a month ago, so I had to sacrifice one of my
\r?\n> "ladies". I put
\r?\n> it up for auction on Ebay and sold it to a guy. He busted my balls
\r?\n> about
\r?\n> making sure that I packed it correctly "so I would not damage this
\r?\n> beautiful
\r?\n> bike"- Low and behold, I see the thing parted up on Ebay today. I
\r?\n> got such a pit
\r?\n> in my stomach! He is even lying saying that it was a demo bike that
\r?\n> was in a
\r?\n> shop.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I know that this is common, but it feels like someone took one of
\r?\n> my
\r?\n> children and parted out their organs! OK, I know that is stretching
\r?\n> it a bit. I just
\r?\n> feel betrayed. Oh well, I had to get it off my chest- hopefully you
\r?\n> guys/gals can empathize with me.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I will go and cry in the corner,
\r?\n> Chuck Schlesinger
\r?\n> San Diego, CA