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

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:13:56 -0700
From: "Dan Kehew" <dan.kehew@gmail.com>
To: "classic rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <8c14bd140803212311q114ec075gcd99cc0973d25374@mail.gmail.com>
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Subject: [CR]Re: Report from visit to Confente # 77

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