Don G. wrote:
You won't find many 1985 bikes selling for $3600 because most of the buyers are too young to be nostalgic and too poor (age 36) to have the deep pockets for this.
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At the risk of belaboring the obvious, I think Don's right about this.
What intrigues me though, is what'll happen when all those guys who are in their mid-30s now, hit their early 40s. Will they want an early 70s Colnago? Or will they go nuts over things like the mint Ciocc Designer that hangs quietly here at Chez Charles? Not to mention things like that panto'd Somec that sold recently for what? 1500 bucks? I could see that bike going for double that price in 5 or 6 years...
Once they've had their fill of end-of-the-friction-era bikes...then maybe they'll get interested in 70s and 60s bikes..it'll probably be similar to us 50-ish guys developing a taste for pre- and post-war bikes. Only the top marques will get attention though, just as it is now.
Charles Andrews Socal
"The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them."
--Galileo Galilei