Re: [CR]What makes DeRosa ($7220) worth more than Confente ($6550)???

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From: <"kohl57@starpower.net">
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 15:13:04 -0400
Subject: Re: [CR]What makes DeRosa ($7220) worth more than Confente ($6550)???


OK, let's talk about Italian bikes here (I can't believe I just wrote that!)... so if that De Rosa is worth that because of few were expor ted to the US, what about Bianchis? Here is a brand forever associated with Coppi

yet one sure never sees any Bianchis of the CR period worth a plug nickel on eBay or elsewhere. It's all low end stuff or nothing. Or modern Bianchis, the kind my PX-10 just loves to smoke on the path. Surely Bian chi made top-end racing bikes in the 1960s-70s but they sure never seemed to have sold any in the US. Given the racing connection and history associa ted with a Bianchi, surely these would fetch even more than $7 k??? Or is Bianchi, like Peugeot and Raleigh, tainted by being a big "please everyone " mass manufacturer? Or maybe it's just that really, really yucky colour?!

Peter Kohler Washington DC USA

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