[CR] NOS freni record and that ciocc

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From: "Charles Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:13:57 -0700
Subject: [CR] NOS freni record and that ciocc


Didn't see anyone mention the end of that brake auction...I have to say, I get paying that much for an NOS no-stamp brakeset in the box. I get it, but it still seem completely whacky to me. They're going in a glass case somewhere, I assume

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The Ciocc auction was interesting...if that bike was my size, I'd take a swing at it, although one does worry a bit about the corrosion. I find it especially--how to say?--piquant that the seller insists that the frame is not steel, when clear evidence to the contrary is right there in front of him. Don't schools teach ANY basic science anymore?

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And that terminally cool bianchi! I WANT that! Price is too high for me though, even NOS..although I'm sorely tempted. One assumes it's been sold outside ebay by now. That is one nice item.

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I am perpetually bemused by a story that went the rounds out here a few years ago..a mutual friend of a number of us vintage types out here who has had a supernatural nose for bikes for years, was visiting a friend not too far from where he lived. He spotted a garage sale across the street. He spotted a celeste bicycle. He wandered over to said sale, and there, right in front of him, was a virtually mint Bianchi Superleggere, original and untouched. I understand that the seller wanted 100 bucks. Our friend bargained him down to $50. And bought the bike.

I STILL resent him for that one.

Charles Andrews los angeles

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A: "In big ways, and little ways too, people do that all the time to themselves. We can't stand prosperity. We have to tinker with the machinery."

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