Re: [CR]Your thougts on this bike?

(Example: Humor:John Pergolizzi)

From: "Grga Franges" <gfranges@post.htnet.hr>
To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Your thougts on this bike?
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 11:59:21 +0200
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Hi Kim! I noticed your posting only after i sent mine. Anyway...
> Enjoy it. It is a very nice bike.
> It looks as though the Reynolds Sticker might have been put there for lack
> of a correct one by the manufacturer, since all the other decals seem
> correct.

Thanks, thats reasurring.
> On the other hand, you will surely find a buyer on this list who will pay
> more than twenty times what you paid. That should finance a good triple
> crank bike.

No, no, no... I'm in love with this bike from the first time i saw it. 20 x more than i paid is by no means a small money by Croatian standards, infact that's what i get for one month of honest work. I allready have a modern road bike with a triple crankset so it's not like i'm gona turn it into something ridicullous - the tripple crank and the clipless pedals are the only change i intend to make. And i simply have to do that because i have to transverse some steep hills wherever i go from the place i live. I think that forcing myself and the bike with standups all the time would do much more damage than a triple cranset.


> Aside from that, I would go for a campy triple if you want to keep the
> bike.
> Nothing looks more ridiculous than a original vintage bike with something
> like STI or Octalink cranks.

I will probably take that advice. In fact it is maybe possible to find some old campy stock out of 80' around here. I will keep all of you updated on my effort. :-)

Grga Franges
Zagreb, Croatia
Europe