Fw: [CR]re: ebay outing: gios super record..sad

(Example: Production Builders:Teledyne)

From: "john barron- velostuf" <jb@velostuf.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Fw: [CR]re: ebay outing: gios super record..sad
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:55:12 -0600
reply-type=response


----- Original Message -----
From: john barron- velostuf
To: "P.C. Kohler"
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]re: ebay outing: gios super record..sad



> Peter-
>
> My point is that if guys like you and me, and most everyone else valued
> complete bikes appropriately high enough, dudes like that eBay guy
> wouldn't ever consider breaking the bike up, really! In other words,
> *everyone* is responsible for this phenomenon.
>
> John Barron
> Minneapolis
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net>
> To: "john barron- velostuf" <jb@velostuf.com>;
> <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 7:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR]re: ebay outing: gios super record..sad
>
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "john barron- velostuf" <jb@velostuf.com>
>> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 8:35 PM
>> Subject: [CR]re: ebay outing: gios super record..sad
>>
>>
>>> There's a reason why the market often times values parts more than the
>>> sum
>>> of the whole bike. It's because folks like you and me make that market.
>>
>>
>> Hmmm... I see an endless and pointless cycle (sorry!) at work here. Avid
>> capitalists take lovely complete bikes strip them into bits and a frame
>> and
>> sell them for the highest price. Avid cycle collectors who cherish this
>> stuff, buy the frame and then scour the market for all the right. parts
>> that
>> were on the bike in the first place!
>>
>> There's an economics lesson here somewhere. But in the end, it's just
>> nice
>> bikes scattered to the wind. And I, for one, sure ain't going to view
>> that
>> with any charity. The people that strip bikes like this can find the cure
>> for cancer and foster stray cats and I still hope they get a thorn in
>> their
>> brand new Veloflex Criterium.
>>
>> And I agree wholeheartedly (wow!) with Chuck Schmidt about "bastardising"
>> classic bikes with modern components. That's almost as teeth-gnashingly
>> awful as parting out a machine in the first place.
>>
>> To sum up: leave the bloody bikes alone!
>>
>> Peter Kohler (who works for a non-profit)
>> Washington DC USA