[CR]Re: Report from visit to Confente # 77

Let's try that second address again:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=14mxle9s.5fxfyfm8&Uy=87urjl&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux=0

Dan Kehew Davis, California USA

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Dan Kehew <dan.kehew@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now some additional photos, courtesy the processing of Robert St. Cyr:
>
> http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=14mxle9s.1p0d3wwg&Uy=-ns5gsq&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux=0
> Just one there, but the rest, including shots of some of Joe (the
> seller's) other bikes:
>
> http://www.kodakgallery.com/SlideshowEnd.jsp?&collid_list=88457974912.426494740112.1206248933051:&img_size=5&trans_delay=3000&trans_enabled=true&conn_speed=1&mode=fromshare&collid=88457974912.426494740112.1206248933051&Upost_signin_override_collid=88457974912.426494740112&Upost_signin_override_collid=88457974912.426494740112
>
> Sorry if I missed any angles you'd have preferred....
>
>
> Dan Kehew
> Davis, California USA
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Dan Kehew <dan.kehew@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You can already see some additional pix on the eBay listing. I'll be
> > posting more as soon as I get 'em back from the person whose camera
> > was borrowed for the visit.
> >
> > Nice bike. If it's fake, well, that's a SWEET fake.
> >
> > We've an extra reason not to call fake on it, based on the CyclArt
> > report that #77 went to John's Bike Shop -- there's a John's sticker
> > on the downtube. What does a John's sticker say? "John's" -- that's
> > all.
> >
> > Seller says he got it from Jacques Boyer, but that Jacques said it was
> > not built for him. Jacques, seller says, told him Mario had built it
> > for his painter "John" -- ergo the "John's" sticker. I disillusioned
> > him, gently I hope.
> >
> > No panto'd bits. NR pedals are now mounted.
> >
> > Problems: Hardly. Two little chips on the top tube, seen in a photo on
> > the eBay listing now. Otherwise, it's been a clear garage queen.
> >
> > Seller is selling 'cause it's been nothing but a garage queen, and
> > that's not been as much fun for him as he thought it would when he
> > fell in love with it upon meeting it at Jacques' place. It's also not
> > his size, as easily determined because it's MY size, and I had a
> > couple-three inches on him. And all his other bikes were smaller. Yes,
> > he had other bikes, as in Colnago, Schwinn Paramount with Nervex lugs,
> > Eddy Merckx bike sitting under a poster of Eddy, Colgate team alu
> > bike, and so forth. Dude is not posing, and a Confente does not look
> > out of place in his pure-bike-geek garage. Tidy bike geek, but still,
> > bike geek.
> >
> > My call: Nice bike, and I told him I hoped he could get his asking
> > price -- and that I doubted he stood a chance of it.
> >
> > Oh, and I didn't see the Boyer provenance, although he mentioned
> > having it as part of the package. I also didn't get to ride the bike,
> > but he didn't blame me for asking....
> >
> > Dan Kehew
> > Davis, California USA
> >