Re: [CR] Peugeot PX10 on eBay

(Example: Bike Shops)

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 08:38:21 -0800 (PST)
From: "Scott Gabriel" <slipangle2@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <886f4.1a93ecc7.3a7ed204@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Peugeot PX10 on eBay


In a word;

Ugly

Scott Gabriel
Cape Cod
US


--- On Sat, 2/5/11, Stronglight49@aol.com wrote:


> From: Stronglight49@aol.com <Stronglight49@aol.com>

\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Peugeot PX10 on eBay

\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Date: Saturday, February 5, 2011, 11:17 AM

\r?\n> That ebay "restoration" project was a

\r?\n> bad idea from the start.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> -- eBay Item number: 200571944250

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Wrong era decals and  even the enamel color is wrong

\r?\n> if he

\r?\n> had wanted to mimic a Thevenet era PY-10 bike.  If

\r?\n> he  just

\r?\n> intended a circa 1975 PX-10 model restoration, both the

\r?\n> components and the decals would still be wrong for that

\r?\n> frameset.   

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Yes, it's sad, but the cost of even correctly restoring

\r?\n> a  frameset

\r?\n> can be a major expense and will seldom return  the

\r?\n> investment.

\r?\n> In this case, he painted it himself so relatively little

\r?\n> was spent. 

\r?\n> However,  here is now a frameset with

\r?\n> inappropriate  decals. Now

\r?\n> mated with parts from the 1960s to 1980s, it does not form

\r?\n> a bike

\r?\n> representing any precise moment in time.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> I would not pay one fourth of the asking price for what

\r?\n> is  just a

\r?\n> collection of someone's nice French bits... now

\r?\n> tossed  together.

\r?\n> He would be better off re-selling the accumulation of

\r?\n> components,

\r?\n> and then try to sell the frameset alone. The frame size is

\r?\n> a bit too

\r?\n> large to be within the most desirable size range, but

\r?\n> little had

\r?\n> been invested for this venture, anyway.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> I'm sure the seller had hoped to make a handsome profit by

\r?\n>

\r?\n> flipping this bike.  He should have done his homework

\r?\n> first.   

\r?\n>

\r?\n> BOB HANSON, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, USA