I agree that it's a shame when an ultra-rare bike is parted out, but we've all seen this guy's explanation and I think there's a lot of empathy for his situation.
About the parts themselves (those pictures are great, and should/must be squirreled away somewhere)...only three of these parts would've been seen on the original bike, right? The stem, the seatpost, and the brake calipers. The chainring is a later model -- wouldn't the original one have been the countersunk version with the clover-pattern holes? And the levers and front derailleur are both typical homebrew mods (or professionally done, but wouldn't have come on that bike from the factory).
Just checking...anybody know for sure?
Cheers,
Scott Minneman
San Francisco, CA, USA
> It seems rather sad that this seller feels like he has to part out his
> very-rare, intact, original colnago pantografata. He could keep the parts
> for the next owner, or he could just find another Colnago with similar
> style, if not quite the same, and use that as his regular rider.
>
> These are very tough to find intact now..I hope he's not going to re-space
> the frame too, but, guess what? He probably is. Maybe if we all wrote
> him polite notes urging him to re-consider, he might.
>
> He knows what he's doing isn't exactly pretty, but it's not stopping him.
>
> Too bad.
>
> http://ebay.com/
>
> Charles Andrews
> Los Angeles
> /
>
> "Somebody has to be tireless...
> or the fast buck operators would
> asphalt the entire coast, fill every
> bay and slay every living thing
> incapable of carrying a wallet."
>
> --John D. MacDonald