Steve: Sorry you had that bad luck /bad packing.
Hard to tell from your photo (what is that yellow?) but I am betting there i s a chance that one could bend everything back straight. That looks like it might be a first gen SR rear der. I think, not a NR. Even more reason to try to save it.
You need some help from a highly competent old school bike shop or individua l with those skills.. Not sure who up there would take the time and care eno ugh and have the expertise to do that. Maybe the list gang recommend someone up there in Yankee land....
Dale Brown cycles de ORO, Inc. 1410 Mill Street Greensboro, North Carolina USA 336.274.5959 http://www.cyclesdeoro.com http://www.classicrendezvous.com
-----Original Message----- From: sgshaw@aol.com To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 5:56 pm Subject: [CR]shipping woes
So I received the Masi that I've been looking for for a while. It's a 74 Gran Criterium from Italy. It was shipped in a single box with the wheels removed. The rest of the bike was wrapped in bubble wrap includ ing the rear dérailleur which was still attached to the frame. Th e box was in pretty tough shape, and when I unwrapped everything it was clea r that the RD had suffered significant damage. Here are some pics of t he RD and the box.
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The bike is clearly not ridable as is. The seller shipped this bike us ing the Italian postal service, so I assume that US Postal delivered it to m y door. I'm not really sure what can be done about this. Can the RD be taken apart and be bent back into a usable condition or am in he mark et for a Nuovo Record RD?
Do I have any recourse with the seller on ebay? I do think the way in which the bike was packed led to the damage during shipping, although to be fair the box must have suffered a significant blow to have bent the deraille ur to this extent.
I'm sure this is not the first shipping horror story. Any help would b e appreciated.
Steve Shaw Millbury, MA USA
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