ah, youre right - thats what i get for not seeing the additional pages of posts (the big pics put the right side of the site off my screen, and thus the links to previous pages...)
but yeah - after a quick run through the vaults, the bike pictured there is obviously not the same one as the one nicked from american, even if one were questioning the 11/011 bit - bigger frame, different color, no chrome lugs...
-joel
At 19:20 -0500 02.18.2007, devotion finesse wrote:
>Yup. But this is number #011. I'm confused by the XX vs 0XX serial
>number discrepancy...There was some attempt to clarify on the BF
>thread. This is a question for the cognoscenti! Bring out the
>private dicks!
>
>Matthew Bowne
>Brooklyn, New York
>
>>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>>Subject: Re: [CR]Another Confente found? (pics now)
>>Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:03:33 -0800
>>
>>wasnt #11 the one stolen from american cyclery in san francisco
>>back in the late 90s?
>>
>>-joel
>>
>>At 18:31 -0500 02.18.2007, devotion finesse wrote:
>>>For those of you interested in the Confente thread on the
>>>BikeForums, the owner has now posted pics of "recently uncovered"
>>>bike 011. What do y'all think? The real deal?
>>>
>>>http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=269862&page=3
>>>
>>>Matthew Bowne
>>>Brooklyn, New York
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i know what innocence looks like - and it wasn't there,
after she got that bicycle...