after a brief colloque with the seller of the craigslist raleigh pro, he informed me he has a buyer. Whether it's a buyer at 5 grand, I don't know, he wouldn't say. But he did think his bike was worth 5 grand.
This must mean that this circa 1960 Masi Special I have in all-original paint and original parts is probably worth 10 grand, right? And a clean original confente is worth at least 15 grand. And whoever got Alex's chromed Rene Herse Randonneuse on ebay recently for 3 grand got the bargain of the century
(in all seriousness, that WAS a bargain. I missed it because Alex put it up as a *r herse* rather than Rene Herse. I'd have tried for that one)
<sigh> gotta love this game. Vastly entertaining sometimes.
Charles Andrews
Los Angeles