The toughest ones are stolen ones because you didn't get a choice:
My Frejus chrome plated track back ser# 86007. Perfect decals and Campy 1" pitch. About 15 world championships listed on the decals. I recovered this bike and it was stolen again. I spotted it on the street one last time and I couldn't catch the guy on foot. He never knew I was chasing!
My first Jim Redcay road bike. 10 days delivery, $125 for the frame. When stolen had a prototype Nitto stem, drilled up the center with alloy bolts, Hi-E hubs, Hatta Swan alloy headset and a Zeus freewheel and the american made sealed bearing pedals that were certainly copied by the Sunour Superbe. Anyone know who made these?
The good news:
Thanks to Chris Beyer I am getting back the one I most regret selling. This is a mid-level LeJeune I bought new, blue with no decals and made with Columbus metric tubing. Cinelli bars, stem and saddle, Mafac brakes, TA 3 pin cranks, Simplex plastic derailleurs, Lyotard pedals, Campy tipo hubs and Super Champ rims. It originally came with Dourdoigne (sp?) tires. I raced this for 6 weeks after crashing my second Redcay in the Tour of Martha's Vineyard. Due to the low BB and wide pedals I crashed this too in the Tour of Harlem. I was on a 3 man break, 1/2 a lap up with a $500 prize for the cat. 3 and a crowd of 5000. I hit the pedal so hard I flipped 270 degrees. The crowd loved it. If I had the sense to pass my helmet I moght have made my gas money! Anyway a friend of Chris's scoffed up the bike in my home town and Chris made the connection that it was mine.
Joe
At 07:21 PM 12/18/00 EST, RGarni2706@aol.com wrote:
>dear everyone,
>
>is it time to ask again? well, let's try a variation on the theme (earlier,
>it was sort of a "wish list" or "desert island" grouping <grouppoing?> of
>bikes)--here's a variation, for all group members:
>
>WHAT IS THE ONE BICYCLE THAT YOU WISH YOU HAD NEVER SOLD ?(or possibly, what
>was the one bike you wish you DID buy, but didn't, even though you saw it
>there, and lo your heart was filled with longing?)
>
>for me, an early 80's colnago master with c record components (and delta
>brakes) sold for $100 more than I offered, this summer, on e-bay...
>
>(and perhaps because I haven't seen a peter weigel for sale, to date)
>
>ricky
>of
>carrboro
>(with
>3
>r's)