I love these old veterans; they are a tangible link to those exploits of the road now seen only in the b&w photos of period magazines or books regaling in the history of the sport. They are not machines for hammering out the miles (unless you're Chuck Schmidt). They are artifacts of a past era and they require their owners to be curators rather than bike owners. With dry wooden rims and loose rusty spokes, they are gingerly ridden, if at all. They take up the same storage space of a more practical bike (one from the'70s for ex). They're not practical, but neither is a Bugatti. Tell me you wouldn't find a way to keep a T35 in your garage, given the chance.
Jay Van De Velde
Seal Beach, CA
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DATE: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:55:27
From: Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Cc:
>Mark Agree wrote:
>>
>> What confounds me, is the suspicion that the Campy gears, having been sold
>> alone might easily have gone up over $1000. Why then do the high rolling
>> bidders not attack an entire gruppo in one fell swoop?
>
>Looking at past auctions on eBay, Cambio Corsa (two shift rods & two
>hubs is all) doesn't go for even half that, especially rusty versions.
>I think the emerging reality is that there is more of this stuff (1940s)
>than there are buyers to fight over it.
>
>The majority of the collectors I've met are looking for 1970s and even
>1980s bikes and an old soldier from the 1940s while interesting, is not
>something they have been obsessing over trying to find and possess.
>
>Chuck Schmidt
>South Pasadena, CA
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