Re: [CR]What's up with this auction?

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From: "Ed and Sandy" <eestoye@cinci.rr.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]What's up with this auction?
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:00:24 -0500


Are these then "the" Weinmann Rising Sun levers?
Ed Estoye
Middletown, OH


----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Schmidt
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [CR]What's up with this auction?



> Tom Hayes wrote:
> >
> > I am not about to look a gift-horse in the mouth, but I really would like to know what's up with this auction? Other than the red dot on the levers, I do not find these Weinmann brakes different than others.
> >
> > http://ebay.com/<blah>
> >
> > But as I said, I am not checking out the horse's teeth, only asking what makes these special over and above other more common Weinmann brakes?
>
>
> The answer is always the same Tom. Anything that goes for more money
> than you think it should (or would) is something that the Japanese
> collectors like. The Japanese collectors like the version with the red
> anodized QR mechanism on the levers.
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, CA
> http://www.velo-retro.com (T-shirts, reprints and Timelines)

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