maybe it's the rare "Mallard" hubs and freewheel
https://www.uvm.edu/
Tobit Linke, Dortmund, Germany
Message: 7 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:10:14 -0500 From: Via Bicycle <viabicycle@gmail.com> Subject: [CR] any idea why this 1970s Motobecane went for over $1500?? To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Message-ID: <755971e20911170810l12c3a6ffm5499b81ceb1c9ccb@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
ebay auction-
http://ebay.com/
just a stock 1970s Moto. nothing special. it is clean, and has been cleaned. but there is nothing special about it? we have 2 here at the shop right now. I was shocked when I saw it on Ebay at $900, but even more atontished at $1500+.
Funny seeing "more desirable" bikes sell for a lot less. I am kind of weary to put a couplejack taylors on Ebay now, seeing that there is more demand for bike boom era mass produced bikes, then custom or semicustom bikes. Let me comb the rafters for Gitanes and the like.
joel flood
philadelphia, PA