> Hello, All
>
> In 1977, when I lived in Colorado, I bought a lovely little (18" frame
with
> 27" wheels, drop Campy handlebars) bike, all nicely kitted out with a
> short-people's pedals and a mix of Campy and Shimano accoutrements, from
the
> Flying Dutchman in Denver himself. I rode it a lot but found, sadly, that
> when I moved to England in 1983 it wasn't up to the utterly foul
patched-up
> runnels of potholes Oxford deigns to call its bike lanes, and I retired
it.
> It has had to have some new brakes as the original Mafic cantilevers
finally
> died, and I have a girly saddle (being a female...) rather than the
original
> saddle (which is still knocking around somewhere).
>
> I gatherthat FD is/was well-known but I am blessed if I can find out
> anything of the history of the bike, let alone what it might be worth to
> anyone. It really is too whippy for an elderly new mom like me, and short
of
> keeping it until my 2.5 year old grows up, I am stumped: do I give it to a
> museum? Sell it? Hang it on the wall as art?
>
> All advice/info gratefully received.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Katherine