That's good fun, Aldo. All you needed was $5000.
And the bikes. And good luck with that back then. I suspect as a new dealer you'd be lucky to get Polish or Czech made "10-speeds" with about a
10-month waiting period. I loved this era when all of a sudden you'd see
dozens of brand new bikes with names you never heard of in your life. I remember Flandria just popped out of nowhere around here in the early 1970 s as some local shop scored a container load of 'em. Meanwhile the brands people knew and wanted.. Raleigh, Peugeot, Gitane, Schwinn... we ll they were thin on the ground during the height of the "boom" and a lot of the Raleighs were made in Holland, Ireland or Canada. I had to buy my Peugeo t UE-8 as a floor sample as it was. As long as it was a "10-speed" it all flew out of the door. I saw a pile of these "racers" in their rusted bei ge and yellow piled in a skip outside a condominium here and knew the only thing I'd get investigating any further was a case of tetanus.
Peter Kohler Washington DC USA
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