Nice bike - even with the mix of parts - or perhaps because of that mixture... Anyway, if someone was low level professional, and the local shop gives him the discount "professionnel" (or he won a front derailleur as a prime), wouldn't he simply smile, take the piece, and use it when his old pieces wore out? In the past, this might even have been true for a guy like Marc Gomez?
By the way, your Bakelite lantern is "tres cool", so treat it
with some respect.
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
> Seeing as I got no response to my post on a bakelite light
\r?\n> yesterday, I went out this morning in a huff and purchased a
\r?\n> racing bike with pedigree. Not a TDF winner. A winner of the
\r?\n> Championnat d'Aquitaine, arguably the most competitive
\r?\n> regional championship in France. The guy who rode it all
\r?\n> season to final victory went from semi-pro to pro after that.
\r?\n> He was part of the French Team at world championships. And
\r?\n> other things that count.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Pictures and a little comment on this bike at
\r?\n> http://membres.lycos.fr/
\r?\n> for the bottom left link called "historical or hyterical" or
\r?\n> something to that effect. You can be your own judge as to
\r?\n> whether this particular bike could be deemed "of real
\r?\n> historical interest". The point being how far up the racing
\r?\n> ladder does a bike have to go, or it's owner to later reach
\r?\n> for it to be more valuable than a similar bike with no racing
\r?\n> pedigree. Hope I get some coments on and off list on this one
\r?\n> :)
\r?\n>
\r?\n> As a machine, I normally wouldn't have bought it. Not my
\r?\n> taste in bikes. But it has history. I reckon it has enough
\r?\n> history to make it worth more than the sum of it's parts.
\r?\n> Nice change. It means nobody lays their hands on it and
\r?\n> dismantles it, then ebays all the parts one by one over a
\r?\n> period to buyers in the States or Japan so they can chase the
\r?\n> bike all over ebay and collect 75% of it at ten to twenty
\r?\n> times the price of what it would have cost 'em to buy it from
\r?\n> someone reputable (that excludes me) and have it shipped
\r?\n> whole. But there again, if people don't realize this, can't
\r?\n> stand the prospect of shipping charges on a whole bike or
\r?\n> enjoy the most expensive jigsaw puzzle in the world, is that
\r?\n> any busines of mine ?
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Nick "M" Bordo, Landes (yeah, I moved), Aquitaine, France
\r?\n>
\r?\n> ps: the other question is: do you think it would look funky
\r?\n> with a bakelite light on it ?
\r?\n>
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