[Classicrendezvous] Warning--Peugeot Track Bike For Sale

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From: <LouDeeter@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 08:54:18 EST
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [Classicrendezvous] Warning--Peugeot Track Bike For Sale

<jonf@rocketmail.com> This guy is offering the following bike. I can't use it so perhaps one of you might want to contact him. He wants $700 or best offer & will consider trades. Lou Deeter, Huntsville AL 35803. Again, contact jonf@rocketmail.com if interested.

Here are the specs: &#8226; 56 cm Peugeot "Record du Monde" track bike: &#8226; Vintage 1970's I believe from the graphics &#8226; Reynolds 531 DB tubing &#8226; Campagnolo fork ends front and rear &#8226; Long point lugs with wraparound seattube lug &#8226; Full Campy track group - All orginal and in VGC (except for toe clips and straps - both new later Campy) &#8226; Old-style steel Cinelli bars and stem &#8226; Unicanitor saddle &#8226; Campy bar-end shifter controlling a Campy (NR) front brake photos if you are interested.

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For anybody who has never been there, I will say Japan is extremely expensive, and they bring home large sums compared to the US, and especially compared to the majority of other countries.

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That does not echo my experience. In a comparable position in the business world, the salaries tend to be lower than here in the U.S. while the cost of living is generally higher (at least in & around the major cities). What the Japanese do is SAVE much more than we do by a long shot, so when they reach a certain stage in life they may have a large nest egg (especially since many will never be able to afford their own home), so they express their "status" in other ways, such as driving a Euro. version Porsche in Tokyo. Talk about an attention-getter! I once saw a 300SL Mercedes Gull-wing (not a replica) being driven as a daily driver in Tokyo, but I'll bet the owner had a rented apartment. Different society, different ways to be an individualist in a very homogeneous environment....

In Japan, "the nail whose head sticks up the farthest gets pounded down first" is what I've been told by friends over there. A very fascinating place.

Greg Parker