Listmates:
I have a 58 cm Concorde Astore (circa 199that I am interested in trading for a complete CR-era bike with Nuovo Record or Super Record components. More on what I want for my bike will follow the description of my bike.
My bike is a 58 cm, and is equipped with mostly Chorus parts (including the shifters, which have the diagonal grooves in the levers and do not bear the Chorus label and the pretty, albeit weak, monoplaner brakes) and some Athena parts (I will need your help verifying which parts are Athena). The bike has 175 cranks with 53/39 rings, a 140 mm Cinelli stem, Cinelli 66-44 bars, a modern American Classic Seatpost, and a modern Selle San Marco saddle that looks like an Aspide (a/k/a sit-bone splitter) that I snagged from a saddle bin at my LBS (it was taken off a stock bike or traded for a saddle that fit somebody better). Note: when I bought the bike, it came without a saddle and with a straight-up f-u-g-l-y seatpost that must have been taken off a Huffy that was not made by Ben Serotta. I will toss in two silver bottle cages that will hold water bottles but that look like they were fashioned from recycles coat hangers.
I bought this bike cheap because it sat around forever and had to be completely tuned-up (done by my LBS; I'm mechanically retarded, err, challenged). The housing was replaced by my LBS, but I have a set of brand-new Campy cables that I'll pass along at my cost (close to wholesale).
The bike is clean, but does look like it was ridden. I would rate the bike as 10/10 mechanically (an honest and objective evaluation), 7.5/10 cosmetically (irrespective of the bike's vintage, but not a purely objective evaluation) and about an 8/10 in terms of its condition, all things considered (objective and subjective). I can send pictures of my bike to your email address should you ask me to do so privately (i.e. not through the listserver), but I will have to take them first. In any event, I will let the pictures do the rest of the talking.
Now what I want it return for my bike and (perhaps) some cash. As I said, I want a CR-era and CR-equipped (i.e. with NR or SR) bike, 57-58 cm in size, that's in a condition comparable to how I described that of my Concorde. With that said, I don't expect your cherry Legnano or anything, and might settle for a decent Raleigh Professional or something similar. Actually, a Ron Cooper is what I really want!
A brief apology: the last time I posted, I offered a chrome fork for sale. A friend of mine managed to break its crown (near the steering tube). I am sorry for the lack of communication to those of you who expressed interest in the fork.
Regards,
Philip W. Moore, Jr.
Frisco, Texas, U.S.A.
(469) 323-0832