Ah but then we have the court of last resort. Where does a bike today of say 8/10 quality sell relative to its circa 1975 cost? Very few production bikes break even but Raleigh, Peugeot, Schwinn do fairly well. Most custom builders do poorly. High priced bikes- Hetchins, Cinelli Herse, Singer do well. Hard to get bikes do well- Cinelli, Pogliaghi, DeRosa for example do well. If too obscure, like say Freschi, a bike does not do well, The best value producers like Motobecane, Trek and Marinoni do not do very well. Some bikes just don't change hands- seen any Hurlows lately?
Actually, good bikes that sold in big numbers like Raleigh, Peugeot, Schwinn have a big sentimental market today.
I would love for a UK specialist to explain, to the vague extent I have above, how it all shakes out in that market, now and then.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ
>
> Good point. And shouldn't we also have an adjustment factor to
> adjust the
> adjustment factor? (seein' as how bikes that sell in higher numbers
> are often
> less desirable as collectibles and therefore may not get discussed
> as much).
>
> Bob Hovey
> Columbus, GA
>
>
> In a message dated 4/25/2006 8:30:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> joebz@optonline.net writes:
>
>
> These need to be divided through (normalized) by the total number
> of bikes
> sold by each to determine the specific CR list "throw weight".
>
> I'll start with some guess
> at the order
>
> Confente
> Herse
> Singer
> Hetchins
> Pogliaghi
> Various good custom builders with relatively low counts
> Custom builders who cranked out more bikes
> DeRosa
> Cinelli
> Other semi-production bikes
> Bianchi
> Production bikes
>
> Joe Bender-Zanoni
> Great Notch, NJ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: BobHoveyGa@aol.com
> Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:03 pm
> Subject: [CR]Who's really the Hot Topic?
>
> > Someone does this every few years, this time I guess it's my
> turn...>
> > Let's see just who is dominating the content on CR. Here's an
> > archive
> > search results for various names:
> >
> > (Mario) Confente: 1545
> > (Jack) Taylor: 1567
> > (Rene) Herese: 1801
> > Paramount: 3190
> > Bianchi: 3193
> > Peugeot: 3199
> > Schwinn: 3491
> > Colnago: 3977
> > Cinelli: 7178 (4668 with "bars" and "stem" filtered out)
> > Masi: 6819
> > Raleigh: 7129
> >
> >
> > Bob Hovey (1058)
> > Columbus, GA
> >
> >
> >
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