[CR]re: colnago SUPER price

Peter kohler wrote, in part:

"All this talk about prices and value=2E=2E=2E I guess it's worthwhile to r= ecall or find out how much you'd pay for these machines NEW thirty odd years ago= =2E"

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Uh, actually, if you check the usual MSRP for a landed Colnago Super in 1973, from Berkeley Velosport, *without* the fancy parts, the price was 450-500, depending on options. Just a year later the price was about 100 bucks higher, if I recall correctly.

Go to the handy-dandy inflation calculator, http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ and enter the appropriate figures, and you find that $550 in 1973, would have bought you about the equivalent of $2275 today, which just happens to be....VIOLA!.. almost exactly the price paid for that Colnago on ebay!

I'd be willing to bet that the bike on ebay would have cost about $550 from velosport, with those fancy parts as an option. Were the wheels original on that colnago? Probably not. So, to that extent, the bike may be worth a bit less. But not much..and those original wheels are relatively easy and cheap to reproduce to the point where no-one but a really finicky expert could tell the difference.

So, actually, it was a fair deal all 'round, especially when you consider the real-world rarity of those bikes in any condition at all, let alone one in pretty darned good condition.

Charles "I use the inflation calculator all the time to help me rationalize what I'm paying for these things.. ;> " Andrews soCal