Rod: I bought a NOS Vitus 979 with NOS Super Record for $750 at Larz a few years ago. Hope that helps. Merry Xmas, Peter Naiman Boston, Mass
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> From: "H.M. & S.S. Sachs" <sachs@erols.com>
> Date: 2002/12/21 Sat AM 08:22:19 EST
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> CC: rodk3d@attbi.com
> Subject: re: [CR]any idea on value of Alan Super Record?
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> Rod Kronenberg wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if anyone might venture a guess on the value of a "like new"
> Alan
> Super Record? The components and the bike virtually look like new. It's a
> small
> frame, around 50cm and the components are either Nuovo Record or Super Record.
> I can't tell as the bike is hanging from the rafters in a LBS. I can just
> get a
> finger on the wheel!
>
> Why, the arithmetic is easy for me: Add up the value of the parts, and
> subtract transaction costs and the distasteful task of finding someone to
> con into taking the Alan frame. :-)
>
> I like aluminum. I have a few cannondales, and think it is the absolute
> right way to do a tandem, for example. I just regard the Alan as a design
> that brings out the worst in the material, with few of its benefits. Only
> a marketer or someone who believes that flexibility is a great viture would
> have designed an aluminum frameset with "conventional" tube diameters.
>
> But, I hope you don't take my effort at humor as an invitation to start
> frame (material) wars. I was just thinking about the recipes for baked
> Zucchini: slice the Z longways, fill it with something good to eat. Bake
> the concoction, eat the filling and treat the Z as a container...
>
> happy holidays!
>
> harvey "cynic" sachs