re: [CR]Awesome Sears Bicycle ...

(Example: Production Builders:Cinelli:Laser)

Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 20:02:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: "David Feldman" <feldmanbike@yahoo.com>
Subject: re: [CR]Awesome Sears Bicycle ...
To: HM & SS Sachs <sachs@erols.com>, Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>, "ROBERT L. FREITAS" <freitas1@pacbell.net>, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <3F356ADD.8060901@erols.com>


And the same seller has something else cool that's not being bid up really high yet--a Reynolds 753 CNC bike.
David Feldman
Vancouver, WA


--- HM & SS Sachs wrote:


> From: Donald Gillies asks:
>
> Is this the most valuable bicycle on Ebay right now
> ??
>
> http://tinyurl.com/jgjs
>
> Imagine the bragging rights for this bicycle !!
> "Last week I raced a
> Klein Quantum and beat that guy on my SEARS bicycle
> !!!" It appears
> to be an early 1960's campy / (? 531 ?) sears
> bicycle from Austria
> with high-quality parts (except steel crankset) ...
> ! ! !
>
> and Bob Freitas also saw it:
>
> EBAY OUTING, your basic CAMPI equiped SEARS
> bike(PUCH?) looks like
> it should polish up nicely,this could be your ride
> for the VELO
> RENDEVOUS...............................
>
> BOB FREITAS
> 85o
> MILL VALLEY,CA
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah
>
> ----------------
> This Sears appears to be the same model as the one I
> rode at Cirque 03, except more original. They are
> from the early 60s (note that the record front has
> the cable stop). They have decent seamed tubing,
> assuredly NOT 531. The thread that followed in
> early May allowed that it was, as Donald suggests,
> pretty funky -- down to the chainstay bridge that is
> a genuine ESGE (?) kickstand holder. This one
> clearly has more original parts than mine - I'm
> inspired to look for a Nervar 3-arm steel crank to
> replace the cheapo stronglight that I used to
> replace one that was clearly not original. BTW, the
> hubs are not exactly top-line, the basic Normandy HF
> with pressed cups.
>
> Your mileage may vary
> harvey sachs
>
>
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