Interestingly, right at the beginning the auction description states that Everest/Japan has declared that though the decals are authentic '70s Everest transfers, the bike is not a Japanese Everest. Everest/Japan did not sell decals separately at the time, so it's not known how genuine Everest decals wound up on a non-Everest frameset.
It looks as though the seller has had many inquiries, but no bids as of yet. To his credit, he is very up-front about the bike not being genuine.
Cheers,
Paul Brodek Hillsdale, NJ
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:54:42 -0500 (EST), chasds@mindspring.com wrote:
>other than the graphics being an obvious
>--and rather charming--tribute to Cinelli... the thing
>looks a little crude to me. Look at that seat-lug. Doesn't
>appear to me that it ever saw a file before it
>was chromed..look at the bottom tang, it
>appears it still has the typical rough unfairness
>of a Nervex out-of-the-box.
>
>I have a Baylis frame hanging from a rack
>in my bedroom right now (my girlfriend is
>*really* tolerant, you know?)...and I have
>to confess I never saw a properly finished-off
>Nervex Pro lug until I had this frame to
>admire for awhile. Mr. Baylis's work is
>just off the chart. There are no words. You have
>to see it. So...that Everest looks crude to me.
>My standard of comparison has changed.
>
>Charles "I still love Mondias, for instance, but,
>BOY, are they crude" Andrews
>beautiful south Orange County, CA
Paul C. Brodek
Hillsdale, N.J. U.S.A.
E-mail: pcb@skyweb.net