Re: [CR]'54 Urago track bike...advice sought

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From: <themaaslands@comcast.net>
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org (Classic Rendezvous)
Subject: Re: [CR]'54 Urago track bike...advice sought
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:33:15 +0000

Tom Sanders wrote:
> Just got a call from a good buddy who says he is holding a '54 Urago track bike
> for me to look at. Blizzard conditions here (8-10" of new snow and I must go
> out of town tomorrow, so I won't be able to see this for a couple of days). He
> says it is red with chrome lugs, has Campy track hubs ("before they were called
> Campy"...this sounds strange to me, but the guy knows a lot about bikes),
> adjustable Cinelli track stem, Cinelli track bars, and some sort of Mavic track
> headset that he says screws down to tighten it up. Lots of stuff I don't
> understand here. He is selling it for a gentleman in his '80s who is the
> original owner. Starting asking price is $300. Doesn't seem to me like I could
> go too far wrong, but it is way outside my area of familiarity.
> I could sure use some advice from anyone more familiar with such things.

Tom,

following your rather uncalled for recent comments about France and French culture, you should be aware before all else that this is a French bike that you are considering. Given your obvious lack of accord with things French, I would strenuously recommend that you stay as far away from it as possible and offer it up to a more enlightened CR listmember.

Laissez faire et laissez vivre.

--
Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ