[CR]affording that dream bike

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing)

Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:30:22 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jay Van De Velde" <jaysportif@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CR]affording that dream bike
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <31796386.1173325766877.JavaMail.root@mswamui-chipeau.atl.sa.earthlink.net>


chasds@mindspring.com wrote: ...A clean, late-70s non-panto'd Colnago Super will run around 1500 bucks...that is less than 400 bucks in 1972 money.. a real bargain...

1972 was the year the bike bug bit me square in the *ss at the tender age of 13, when I earned $20 each Saturday mowing neighbors' lawns. The first magazine I ever purchased was the April 1972 issue of _Bicycling_ where ads appeared for fantasies beyond my reach. Some of them were bikes (recall the Crescent ads). I couldn't afford ANY of the bikes advertised, let alone a $400 Colnago Super. However, a Raphael Geminiani, priced at $12 at a second hand shop, was well within reach. Jay Van De Velde Seal Beach, CA