'$150" for new paint ... where ... Sherwin-Williams ;)
robert
alex, va 22308
> Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 11:45 PM
>
> said Harry, stirred by:
> "Charles Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>'s message of:
> Sunday 28 Oct 07 at 08:06 PM,
> On: [CR]re: davidson Impulse on ebay
> [echoed below, in part<=1]
> -oOo-
> someone wrote:
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
> ssPageName=STRK:MEDW:IT&ih=006
>
> Seems not. This 57mm bike sold, fully equipped, for <$336. And not
> because the wheels were sew ups.
>
> *********
>
> That is pretty sad...that bike was worth more. However, I'd argue that
> the paint-job (which I happen to find remarkably unattractive) was the
> problem. A more attractive paint-job and it might have fetched more.
>
> I have a very nice davidson from the late 70s, a nice all-round touring
> bike, that I'll be selling soon, but if it doesn't fetch more than
> that, I'll keep it.
>
> You miss my point, because I didn't make it well. There are uglier bikes
> 8-20 years older off Italian assembly lines and sweatshops that get more
> attention than the mature work of this and other surviving builders. A
> bike-ignorant but insistent Craiglister would have gotten $225 in his
> local market.
>
> OK. So the paint scheme is dated. So is the hairstyle in your 1989
> photo. Your partner's too. For $336 +$150 for new paint, the bike was
> worth noting. No new quality custom frame is being brazed today for less
> than $1500 with fork; and steel fork building skills are ever less
> practiced. It is little wonder, then, that many quality framemakers in
> the US have moved on to TIG welding titanium and aluminum, or left the
> business. Little appreciation for their mature craft, it seems.
>
> I value the knowledge and insights here at CR, but if more contemporary
> bikes by master craftsmen and artisans in the US are not of note
> here--literally--I'll feast as my fortune allows on future Masi's, such
> as they are.
>
> And HMV was heard earlier on this.
>
> Harry Travis
> DC USA