While $213.75 is lunacy indeed, I think TOTAL lunacy would be the fact that I keep an empty tub around so that I can occassionally screw the lid off, bury my nose in it and take a whiff...
Matthew Bowne
Brooklyn, New York
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> From: chasds@mindspring.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:45:13 -0800
> Subject: [CR]ebay auction: Campagnolo grease
>
> Lately I've been in the market for some vintage campagnolo grease,
> because I have a couple of bikes that are just crying out for an
> overhaul with the real deal. Personally, I find this sudden mild
> obsession of mine to be plainly insane, but there you go.
>
> So, I keep looking for some 70s or early 80s Campagnolo grease (because
> any Campagnolo grease made later just wouldn't be right, you know?)..
>
> Lately there have been two nice tubs of Campagnolo grease on ebay.
> Partially used. One sold a couple of weeks ago for about 112
> bucks...and one just sold for....wait for it...
>
> http://ebay.com/
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>
> $213.75. WTF????????????????????????????????
>
> I'll keep looking. But this, friends, is pure lunacy. Is it not?
>
> Btw, I know the person who bought it is on the list...I love ya
> baby...but why, oh why????
>
> (and, John Barron, you were bidding on this thing over 100
> bucks...what's wrong with you??? )
>
> Just to make this entire business even more surreal than it already is,
> I own a nice 500gram tub of Campagnolo grease from probably the
> mid-1980s, or thereabouts. Full up. NOS. Unused. Still sealed with
> the logo'd foil. But, of course, I couldn't possibly USE it. It's
> sealed, ya know?
>
> At least I paid a hell of a lot less for it than that tub above.
>
> What is WRONG with us?
>
> I think I'll go inhale the fragrant fumes of some Park grease. It'll
> keep me grounded.
>
> Charles Andrews
> Los Angeles
>
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