I am offering the following frame for sale - pictures can be seen on my
webshots site @ http://community.webshots.com/
This bike comes with a story. When I got back into cycling and vintage bikes in 2003, I had the good fortune to find this frame for sale on ebay and to win it. I rode this bike for about six months before being hit by a car in an intersection. I was really shaken (and banged up) by the accident and I was very upset that the frame was damaged considerably. The front fork was bent, the front triangle was crunched - the rear triangle was fine. I'd really gotten comfortable riding that bike and missed riding it. The driver that hit me was at fault - so insurance paid for reapirs if I wanted to do that. After talking with Brian Baylis, I sent it off to him to make the repairs and to restore the bike to as close to original as possible. For reasons not entirely clear to me, it took several years for the project to come to completion. Well, in the meantime, I had been busy adding to my small collection and now had several other bikes that had become my everyday riders - mainly my mid/late 80's DeRosa Pro. When the bike came back, it was beautiful, but I never got around to building her back up and getting her back on the road. After several years as wall art, I'd love to find this bike a new home.
It's hard to value this bike - it's not all original, at the same time, I know that the work done by Brian is of equal or better quality in every respect to the original. I think Brian made every effort to make his work relate to the original build quality so that the results look natural to the marque.
Brian reused all the lugs as well as the unique fork blades and dropouts from the original frame. He used matching tubes and a matching fork crown and steerer. Pogs had a lot of different decals - the ones on the frame match the originals - some were made up custom from photos of the originals by SSSink(?). The color in the photos does not do justice to the actual "electric blue" that was a signature Pog and Colnago color of the time. The bike comes with a used NR bottom bracket and headset - both in good/very good condition. I have $1500 in this repair/restoration and I am asking for that (includes domestic shipping).
This bike is from the '74/'75 timeframe. The bottom bracket markings and serial # (d663) can be seen in the photos. Please let me know if you have any questions about the frame or need any other information.
Thanks for looking!
Roman L Stankus
Atlanta, Georgia USA