Re: [CR] $279.00 for a set of MAFAC Racers

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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:11:49 -0500
From: "Harry Travis" <travis.harry@gmail.com>
To: haxixe@gmail.com
Cc: Fred Rednor <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] $279.00 for a set of MAFAC Racers

Well, Robbie is on list. Maybe he'll cook a batch to the Mafac Racer specification

Harry Travis New Jersey, USA

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Kurt Sperry <haxixe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Fred Rednor <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > > http://ebay.com/<blah>
> > >
> > > Someone pays $279.00 for a set of what appear to be
> > > ordinary MAFAC Racers in this just finished auction.
> > >
> > > Another virtually identical set went within hours of the
> > > same time for $73.00.
> >
> > Perhaps someone _rally_ wanted those brake lever hoods? That's the
> really unusual part of that brakeset.
>
> Yet, how would that explain the set of NOS $73.00 Racers sold the same
> day referred to above,
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
> with the same white hoods? The most I've ever seen a set of white
> MAFAC half-hoods alone fetch on Ebay- and I've been watching- is
> $53.73!
>
> Kurt Sperry
> Bellingham, Washington
> USA
> _______________________________________________
>

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Harry Travis