[CR]another department store bike

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From: "Joel Niemi" <bberryacres@hotmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:55:41 -0700
Subject: [CR]another department store bike

A high school friend spotted a bike at the J.C. Penney store in Eugene, Oregon in 1971 or '72. He asked the bike deities at the LBS (Collin's Cycle, purveyors of Peugeots, Raleighs, a few Stellas, Motobecanes and Colnagos at the time) what they knew about it, and they told him to definitely go for it.

It was an Olmo, and I believe mostly Campagnolo-equipped except for the brakes, at a price about $200 at the time as I recall -- just a bit more than the PX-10s.

It would be interesting to know what became of that bike. I think it was the only one from that store.

Joel Niemi
Snohomish, Washington