Re: [CR]E-bay prices

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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:52:51 -0500
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "John Taglia" <jtagli1@uic.edu>
Subject: Re: [CR]E-bay prices


At 11:27 AM 4/18/2001 -0700, Tom Dalton wrote in part:
>Modern cars, like modern bikes, are simply much better
>for the vast majority of end users. Fringe group
>fanatics like ourselves and the street-rod set are not
>unwarranted in their nostalgia and for them the old
>stuff may actually better meet their needs. However,
>this is only because we are willing to suffer the many
>drawbacks of old products to gain some benefits that
>would be totally lost on most of the population.

I have to disagree with this.

I really think bike component technology peaked in 1984 or so. I don't think moder 10 cog clusters are better. I don't find modern brakes an advance. Most of the changes seems like marketing. I like my Merlin, but I think it would be just as fast built up with a Spidel gruppo or 50th Anniversary gruppo as with modern components.

Regards,

John Taglia

Sunny and mid 40's in Chicago