Re: [CR]Re: Odd-weird-interesting-scary NOS 1972 Czech bike

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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:40:53 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
To: CR List <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Odd-weird-interesting-scary NOS 1972 Czech bike
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Syke - Deranged Few M/C wrote:
> Unfortunately, despite my father and uncle blowing a
> day or two of the vacation, the entire effort came to
> naught, after running into a load of official
> disinterst in selling one bicycle to a college student
> in Erie, PA - for American dollars, no less.

Wow. That surprises me. When I was in Prague in 1977 I was constantly being approached by people trying to sell me things for American $$$. The black market exchange rate for dollars was several times the official exchange rate.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA