This bike is the spitting image of another Special that was on the local New Zealand auction site a few months back.
Discussion of that frame is at
http://search.bikelist.org/
David Benson Auckland, NZ
EdVintage63@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 2/14/2006 1:41:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org writes:
> http://ebay.com/
>
> Nobody has commented on this bike yet, however, with close to 1500 views
> so far I don't think that I can ruin anybody's chances of buying the
> bike by outing it this late in the auction process.
>
> As Sergio and Matteo can attest, the bike comes from the 'collection' of
> a rather eccentric farmer. The fellow is sitting on about 200 bikes and
> frames. He has them divided between 3 or 4 houses and barns.
> Unfortunately almost all of the bikes are mongrels that have been
> assembled from left-over bits. He has however supplied bikes that were
> used for a number of films. I believe the price will go up quite a bit
> more from where it now stands.
>
> Steven Maasland
> Moorestown, NJ
>
I think Jack Gabus outed this bike when it first appeared, to a loud chorus of slience. A little weird that the listing mentions a "very rare lug pattern," but provides a whole bunch of photos that show close-ups of everything BUT the lugs (no knock on Alessandro as a seller, as I've bought from him before on the 'Bay with no problem). Can anyone who sent for the photos (Bob?) comment on what the "very rare lug pattern that was not in use very long" might be? A batch of Jack-Denny carved Hetchins Magnum Opus lugs that got lost in the mail perhaps?
Ed Granger Lancaster, PA, USA
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