Re: [CR]A sad story indeed: ebay bikes advertised with "pedigree"

(Example: Component Manufacturers)

To: <nicbordeaux@yahoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <989017.8209.qm@web28006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]A sad story indeed: ebay bikes advertised with "pedigree"
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:03:30 +0100
References: <989017.8209.qm@web28006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
From: "Kai Hilbertz" <khilbertz@googlemail.com>
cc: CR List <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Hey Nic, cc List,

on the Raleigh page you wrote: "Suntour cyclone. Sounds bad. Suppose it can't work worse than a Campy record."

Look at the form of the derailleur; the Cyclone already had a modern parallelogram design at a time when Campagnolo NR/SR didn't. It tilts parallel to the cogs, rather than into the cogs like Campagnolo does, so the Cyclone should shift just fine.

Greets

Kai Hilbertz Munich, Germany

On 17.12.2008, at 23:45, nicbordeaux wrote:
> There was this Raleigh bike on ebay France advertised as a TDF
> machine. Hap
> pens I know nothing about Raleighs, so I went for it. And eventually
> got it
> . A nice bike indeed, but not a team bike. The stories people tell,
> you won
> der whether they believe themselves, or whether they think that
> being behin
> d a computer screen gives them total impunity/immunity from being
> called up
> on in the case of a bad fraud. In this case it's OK, the bike is
> worth what
> I paid for it, and I need a beater for the winter anyway. Full pics
> and ac
> count at http://tiny.cc/3kBkL
> And I guess that link is broken so I'll give it again as a ps.
> Best
> Nick March, Agen 47000, Lot et Garonne, France
> ps: http://tiny.cc/3kBkL =0A=0A=0A