Re: [CR]What's Missing in this Ebay auction

(Example: Framebuilding:Technology)

From: "David Goerndt" <davidg@iag.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, "Tom Hayes" <hayesbikes@nls.net>
References: <l03130300b8134eb9936c@[216.144.8.174]>
Subject: Re: [CR]What's Missing in this Ebay auction
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 21:10:30 -0500


: [CR]What's Missing in this Ebay auction


> Reading the person's description and looking at the pictures, I'm going to
> guess there's one happy and surprised person in Buffalo. When I first saw
> it, I thought a $125.00 might bring it to my garage for a winter's cleaning
> project. When I went to bid this morning it had reached $600 and closed at
> over $900. There's something in those Simplex derailleurs, I guess.
>

This bike isn't from the 70's, more like 1965. It has the seat tube decal with the Olympic rings on it. I just sold a frame like this for 300.00. It didn't have the early Simplex derailleur, but it was in much better shape.

David Goerndt