CR Rules for Swap Meets:
1. The things you bring to display are the things everyone wants to buy. Why didn't I get 6 Cinelli trainers?
2. By the time they make it to your table, everyone has already overspent their budget.
3. As soon as you mark something down, someone will rush up, grab it and cuddle it to their bosom, saying "I've got to have this at any price!"
4. Seven CR listers will discuss in painstaking detail the age of a black Colango as if it were the Shroud of Turin. Egad, what fun! The extremely young owner stood by with a look of bemused amazement on his face as grizzled bike weenies rushed over to add their 2 cents. Hints: No brake cable brazeons, no shifter bosses, top of the BB routing-brazeons, one set of water bottle bosses, nutted long reach brakes, non-engraved seat stay caps, clover in the C on the decals. Red herring: a Pat. 82 NR rear derailer, generally condemned as a later add on. Our consensus was second half of the 70's, with a best guess of 75-76. (And where do these kids find these bikes in someone's basement for so cheap?!?)
5. If you keeps parts in a group, they don't sell. When you break up the group, they don't sell either.
6. Never trust internet research when it tells you a motel is only 30 minutes from the meet. 30 minutes would have been about right if I was traveling by Phantom Jet fighter.
7. If you sell about as much as you buy, no harm done. Don't listen to spouses and accountants asking about gas, tolls, lodging and the original cost of the stock. By heck, I have the same amount of cash in my jeans at the end, so I won!
Nifty Westminster finds:
Pair of Suntour Superbe road pedals, used, $30.
Pair of NOS Arc En Ciel tubie rims: $15
Sugino Road 50t Drillium ring: $15
Simplex Retrofriction shifters, almost NOS, $20
Pair of Dura Ace mid 80's non aero brake levers, $10
I have so much stuff left over, I'm heading for the Monson Mass swap meet this weekend. Come early and bring bales of $$$. See you there.
Tom Adams, Shrewsbury NJ.
>Subject: [CR]More Westminster Rambling
>
>
>While the Westminster swap was fun and rewarding, I had to keep
>repressing my thoughts of the beautiful riding weather I was missing.
>The first really "nice" day in what is seeming like a long, very cold,
>wet Winter in this part of the country. Nevertheless, there was plenty
>of distraction in the Carroll County AG Center. I think this event gets
>better every year, with the variety of vintage bits increasing with each
>staging. It's also become sort-of a mid-Winter gathering of CR folk.
>I'm afraid I missed meeting a few newer members, mostly because I missed
>a name tag in Roy's initial distribution round. I'm thinking of making
>up something semi-permanent, just for these events where it tends to get
>pretty crowded and faces become a blur. I also think we should continue
>to pursue the CR clothing angle, or at least a CR logo that can be
>incorporated into badges or clothing. The T-shirt idea is great, but
>Winter in Western MD ain't exactly T-shirt weather. Maybe long-sleeve
>T's or sweats. The cost should be fairly minimal, especially compared
>to custom wool jerseys. Hey, how about an embroidered patch? Something
>that could be stitched onto a favorite cap or jacket or something? Ah,
>but I digress.......
>
>Westminster seems to be a real "buyers market". Prices are generally
>pretty reasonable, and sometimes downright cheap! And, like I said,
>cool vintage stuff keeps filtering in. Many quick conversations went
>something like "Wow, where'd you find that (how'd I miss that), and you
>got it for what???".
>
>Humbly feeling that I'd used up all my swap-meet-karma at T-Town in
>October, I still managed to score some nice tid-bits, including: two NOS
>Concor saddles, one brown suede, one perforated white leather; a Mavic
>SSC rear derailleur and black RD530 rear hub; a pair of 32 hole Superbe
>Pro hubs (3Rensho-bound); two NOS/NIP Sugino "perforated" chain rings; a
>pair of early Shimano 600 brake levers with pristine (and identical) gum
>hoods for the early Dura Ace levers I just got from another gracious
>list-member; and in the true sense of "swap" meet, a trade with Dick
>Shwanke (wasn't he the "frizzy hair and beard that's also into model
>railroading"?) of my Sachs/Huret f/r ders and Sovos track hub for a pair
>of first-gen Dura Ace calipers. Oh yea, I also nabbed a box full of
>decals/stickers that revealed, along with the array of Sacco/Cannondale
>sponsor's stickers, a Reynolds 753 frame/fork sticker set and, coolest
>of cool, a pair of Pinarello and Eddy Merckx logo temporary tattoos!
>
>Remembrances of acquisitions by others include: Larry O's early Trek
>tourer (620?); Karen's fluted NR/first-SR seat post; and Ben's brother's
>HF Campy-hubed wheelset (was that really for ($30??!!).
>
>Best display and coolest vintage stuff, including Galli, Early Dura Ace
>and Suntour Superbe partial groups, as well as a Raleigh International,
>a Fuji Del Ray and a Gipiemme equipped Benotto: Tom Adams. (Of course,
>what everyone wanted to buy was his wool CR jersey and wool Cinelli
>"trainer" he had on display!)
>
>News flash of the day: CR list member and all-around great person Jill
>DiMauro is the new owner of Proteus Cycles in College Park MD! I
>offered my help and support, if needed, and suggested that she might
>expect the same from the rest of the CR family. Best of luck to Jill on
>her challenging (and hopefully rewarding) new career direction.
>
>All in all, another great day of bicycle-culture immersion.
>
>Ciao -
>
>Wayne Bingham
>Falls Church VA
>
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