Re: [CR]Re: Report from visit to Confente # 77

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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:26:31 -0400
From: "Michael Schmidt" <mdschmidt56@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Report from visit to Confente # 77
In-reply-to: <8c14bd140803222213j12cbc87fh97d9e3184ac4caa4@mail.gmail.com>
To: Dan Kehew <dan.kehew@gmail.com>, classic rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Thread-topic: [CR]Re: Report from visit to Confente # 77
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Hi Dan

Thanks for the photos. The original photos that the sellers wife posted in ebay did not do that bike justice. Your photos depict a more accurate description of the bike.

Nice work.

Mike Schmidt Stirling, NJ USA

On 3/23/08 1:13 AM, "Dan Kehew" <dan.kehew@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now some additional photos, courtesy the processing of Robert St. Cyr:
>
> <http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=14mxle9s.1p0d3wwg&Uy=-n
> s5gsq&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux=0>
> Just one there, but the rest, including shots of some of Joe (the
> seller's) other bikes:
>
> <http://www.kodakgallery.com/SlideshowEnd.jsp?&collid_list=88457974912.4264947
> 40112.1206248933051:&img_size=5&trans_delay=3000&trans_enabled=true&conn_speed
> =1&mode=fromshare&collid=88457974912.426494740112.1206248933051&Upost_signin_o
> verride_collid=88457974912.426494740112&Upost_signin_override_collid=884579749
> 12.426494740112>
>
> Sorry if I missed any angles you'd have preferred....
>
> Dan Kehew
> Davis, California USA
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Dan Kehew <dan.kehew@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You can already see some additional pix on the eBay listing. I'll be
>> posting more as soon as I get 'em back from the person whose camera
>> was borrowed for the visit.
>>
>> Nice bike. If it's fake, well, that's a SWEET fake.
>>
>> We've an extra reason not to call fake on it, based on the CyclArt
>> report that #77 went to John's Bike Shop -- there's a John's sticker
>> on the downtube. What does a John's sticker say? "John's" -- that's
>> all.
>>
>> Seller says he got it from Jacques Boyer, but that Jacques said it was
>> not built for him. Jacques, seller says, told him Mario had built it
>> for his painter "John" -- ergo the "John's" sticker. I disillusioned
>> him, gently I hope.
>>
>> No panto'd bits. NR pedals are now mounted.
>>
>> Problems: Hardly. Two little chips on the top tube, seen in a photo on
>> the eBay listing now. Otherwise, it's been a clear garage queen.
>>
>> Seller is selling 'cause it's been nothing but a garage queen, and
>> that's not been as much fun for him as he thought it would when he
>> fell in love with it upon meeting it at Jacques' place. It's also not
>> his size, as easily determined because it's MY size, and I had a
>> couple-three inches on him. And all his other bikes were smaller. Yes,
>> he had other bikes, as in Colnago, Schwinn Paramount with Nervex lugs,
>> Eddy Merckx bike sitting under a poster of Eddy, Colgate team alu
>> bike, and so forth. Dude is not posing, and a Confente does not look
>> out of place in his pure-bike-geek garage. Tidy bike geek, but still,
>> bike geek.
>>
>> My call: Nice bike, and I told him I hoped he could get his asking
>> price -- and that I doubted he stood a chance of it.
>>
>> Oh, and I didn't see the Boyer provenance, although he mentioned
>> having it as part of the package. I also didn't get to ride the bike,
>> but he didn't blame me for asking....
>>
>> Dan Kehew
>> Davis, California USA