On Apr 12, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Paul Williams wrote:
> A few years ago I remember talking to a chap from the Netherlands,
> who was working in a bike store in my home town (Kingston,
> Ontario), who remembers stripping NR and SR parts off bikes while
> he was a mechanic in Holland and simply throwing them into large
> bins in the back of the shop. This used to happen at the end of
> every race season as riders would upgrade to the new year's parts.
> He remembers that in most cases there was nothing wrong with them.
> Made me weep when he told me that - oh that I had a time machine!!!
>
> Paul Williams,
> Ottawa, ON, Canada
Paul, you're not appreciating what a golden time you are living in. The reality (from someone who was there) is that it is much easier and cheaper to get anything you wanted from back then NOW. EBay is like a virtual pro bike shop (candy store actually); there was never a store like it back in the day.
That stuff "thrown into large bins at the end of the race season" is on eBay literally day in and day out for very cheap prices. And the NOS stuff is actually cheaper now that it was new figuring in inflation and the value of the dollar.
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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