[CR]Was NIB 1973 Raleigh International/Now keeping it wrapped (Ed Granger)

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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:36:44 -0400
From: <edvintage63@aol.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Was NIB 1973 Raleigh International/Now keeping it wrapped (Ed Granger)

I can actually see this a coupla different ways. For those of you who celebrate Christmas, you can't tell me that, as a kid, the most sublime moment wasn't that first crack-of-dawn glimpse of the tree with the bright packages at its foot, not actually playing with the toys. A NIB bike kind of perpetuates that Christmas-morning thing. I would love to have that bike. I'd keep it wrapped up and enjoy knowing it was there, with that brand-new, first-ride experience awaiting. I know, I know, the list generally has a very strong "bikes are meant to be ridden" zeitgeist. But I think there can be occasional exceptions - heck, lots of people collect stuff that just sits on a shelf, or even in a vault, and get a kick out of just owning it. That may not be most of us CR folks -- and it's generally not me either. That's why at some point, I'd open a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, put some Bill Evans on the CD player, and open that bad boy and put it together. Then, I'd go for a Christmas-morning-type ride (after sobering up, of course). And I wouldn't regret the consequent drop in value one iota, nor what I'd paid for the experience.

Ed Granger Lancaster, PA, USA One NOS bike in my collection my size, and not yet sure of its destiny.