Greetings all.
Go figure, I've been sleeping with one eye open for a Columbine frame,
and so far this is the only one I've seen, and I'd need a ladder to get
on it! So, I'll let you taller cats go for it. Very very reasonable
starting price, too!
Find it here:
http://ebay.com/
or here, item # 110010208137 Or just search for it, there's only one, bummer. Moving on, I was talking with a friend locally, who worked for the Holdsworthy Company as a young man in the late seventies and early eighties, about the recent topic on this forum regarding dating original components by year and matching them to the frame. He laughed out loud! He said that at Holdsworth, there were bins of Campy (and other I suppose) parts that were unpackaged, in bulk if you will, and the assemblers just grabbed them randomly from the bins to assemble the bikes. He told me that unless there was a change in design or otherwise obvious difference, parts were parts, new ones went right in with old ones, and you could very easily get last year's or older on this year's bike depending upon what the assembler grabbed to install. His hunch was that Holdsworth (and its other brands at the time) was not unique in this practice. Does this at all muddy the notion of "original" as it relates to the bikes often discussed here? Just curious I guess. Greg Overton Logan, Utah, where there are no 54/55 Columbine frames