Show us your C&V original receipts!
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Show us your C&V original receipts!
Original receipts for C&V bikes purchased when new pop up now and again, and I thought this thread could be a place to put them in one place.
Here's my receipt from the first new bike I ever purchased: a Trek 412 from Palo Alto Bicycles. Back in 1982, I spent my first paycheck from working at a small Silicon Valley startup on this bike. A few years later, I had a head on crash with another cyclist on the Stanford campus and bent the top and down tubes (and wrote a letter to Trek to see if they'd do anything about it--no reply). A short time after that, it was stolen from the Menlo Park CalTrain station (yeah, I continued to ride it with that unfortunately shortened wheelbase--handling was very poor):
And for a bonus, here's the receipt that came with an eBay purchase--a 1961 Raleigh Lenton Grand Prix:
Here's my receipt from the first new bike I ever purchased: a Trek 412 from Palo Alto Bicycles. Back in 1982, I spent my first paycheck from working at a small Silicon Valley startup on this bike. A few years later, I had a head on crash with another cyclist on the Stanford campus and bent the top and down tubes (and wrote a letter to Trek to see if they'd do anything about it--no reply). A short time after that, it was stolen from the Menlo Park CalTrain station (yeah, I continued to ride it with that unfortunately shortened wheelbase--handling was very poor):
And for a bonus, here's the receipt that came with an eBay purchase--a 1961 Raleigh Lenton Grand Prix:
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They don't hand out receipts at the flea market and cash only.
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OMG, I think I came across the receipt, circa 1961, for my Dawes Double Blue. $96.50 IIRC. It's probably in one of those junk-pile boxes.
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Most of my bikes, even my first back in 1977, were mongrels with no papers. I was very lucky recently to find a pristine 1987 Allez for sale from the original owner. He included the original receipt, manual, and Accushift card, just like right off the showroom! But the one that will always warm my heart was the bill of sale from the original owner for my 1974 Masi Gran Criterium!
Happy holidays! - Jim
20151222_075253 by Jim Harris, on Flickr
Masi Receipt redacted by Jim Harris, on Flickr
Happy holidays! - Jim
20151222_075253 by Jim Harris, on Flickr
Masi Receipt redacted by Jim Harris, on Flickr
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"Delivery of a Super sports bicycle number 7898. Complete with Campagnolo derailleurs, Campagnolo hubs and crank set. Amsterdam, 10 April 1965, W. Bustraan"
Came with the bike when I bought it in 2012 from the original owner's estate.
Came with the bike when I bought it in 2012 from the original owner's estate.
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From 1962...Green Lake Cycles in Seattle (still there). $137.50 for a Raleigh Gran Sport, with rack, light, cyclometer, and clips and straps. I wonder what the trade in was for $7?
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You ever look back and think, man, I wasn't charging enough?
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No redaction needed, for fun, google the address. 15 miles from town, flat as a pancake. Generic receipt and I don't remember the shop name, but it was on Blackstone Ave. in Fresno.
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Love it!!! As you can see I swapped out a few things as well! I had bought my first Fuji from this shop in the spring of '73, and it's replacement after the first was stolen three months later. After buying the S-10S, my SunTour barcon shifters and 'No 1 tape' came from Bike Warehouse shortly after!! After riding the first thousand-plus miles, I built up a better wheelset from Phil Wood hubs, narrow Mavic clincher rims and stainless DB spokes... So I had basically turned my S-10S into a Fuji America...
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Sekai 2700, ca. 1980, SN YOH7130
This is about as close to a time machine as it gets. I picked this up at an estate auction this morning and to my understanding this bike was never ridden outside. The owner (who is 94) purchased it new in 1983 and then rode it on Kreitler rollers indoors for a few years, then hung it up on the wall. It's been hanging there ever since. The owner's manual and original receipt were in the bottle holder. Other than a gel pad over the saddle, I am confident this is 100% original, right down to the lavender-colored bar wrap (which I think has faded over thirty years from a more color-coordinated blue.
Peugeot PR10, purchased in The Netherlands, 1973
This is my neighbor's orange PR10, along with a note from him about the bike:
Dear Mark,
As I told you, by coincidence did I find the flap on that booklet I showed you describing the bike I have.
I decided to search the internet using the sentence:
"brochure van Peugeot PR10"
The search result I honed into;
Cycles Rétro-Peugeot or <a href="https://www.peugeotshow.com/" rel="nofollow">www.peugeotshow.com/</a>
The first image I scanned is a scan I did, the other images are of the brochure I had (and still may have) per above website.
I bought the bike in 1973. I thought I had done so in 1968.
Anyway it will clear the mystery of my Peugeot bike. The difference between the PR10 and PX10 is that the the forks of the PX10 were also made from Reynolds 531 tubing.
If I find the page of the brochure I have, I wll create a better scan.
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Here is receipt from the Holdsworth I purchased from Robert Badger of Robert's Rebuilds in London, England in summer of 1973. I had corresponded with him by mail from home in Nova Scotia asking for a frame to be built up in the touring kit I requested. Never knew what model frame it was until repainting it a couple of years ago when I found an oil soaked piece of paper protruding into bottom bracket from seat tube. It was a 1965 Typhoon. https://www.flickr.com/photos/767624...57631492455432
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Not mine (I wish! but too small a frame for me) but I came across this image somewhere, an order sheet for a Hetchins in 1963. Sorry it's not a receipt -- should I take it down?
Somewhere I think I have the receipt (from original owner) for a 1984 Moto Team Champion that I bought, and still have. I'll see if I can dig that up. He was a teen racer.
Somewhere I think I have the receipt (from original owner) for a 1984 Moto Team Champion that I bought, and still have. I'll see if I can dig that up. He was a teen racer.
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These are great! But it made me wonder what records I might have of purchasing C&V bikes back in the day. The best I can do is this print out of my 1989 bike sales. Note the quality dot matrix printing. Mostly I would buy these bikes at the flea market, fix them up, and re-sell one at a time by locking them to the fence in front of my house and posting a sign. I don't specifically remember any of them, but I wonder about that Norman. And a 4-speed 1952 Raleigh Sports in my size!
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These are great! But it made me wonder what records I might have of purchasing C&V bikes back in the day. The best I can do is this print out of my 1989 bike sales. Note the quality dot matrix printing. Mostly I would buy these bikes at the flea market, fix them up, and re-sell one at a time by locking them to the fence in front of my house and posting a sign. I don't specifically remember any of them, but I wonder about that Norman. And a 4-speed 1952 Raleigh Sports in my size!
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No real receipts here because they weren't active inventory when I bought them but they have original tags. NOS CCM 48 roaster from Marsalas bike shop on Queen St in TO.
And just down the St at Warrens Cycle, I bought this '37 CCM Road Racer.
And just down the St at Warrens Cycle, I bought this '37 CCM Road Racer.
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OK to post a used bike receipt?
Guess I will anyway. This is for my aka namesake bike I still have. And a copy of the California Bicycle License someone told me I needed to get. I also have the braze-ons and repaint work order from Sugden & Lynch filed away somewhere.
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Through a "Tell Your Story" post I did, below is a receipt, found rolled up inside the seat tube, from across the pond for a 1965 Carlton Flyer.
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Not exactly C&V but a gateway: my first steel frame since Trek 560 in college. I had just moved to NYC for a job and wanted a bike. Bought a Cannondale R800 on impulse and it only took one ride to see NYC streets and stiff aluminum don't mix. Mr C's in Brooklyn took back the R800 and transferred the whole Ultegra kit onto a Ciocc frame (Dedacciai Zero Uno) that's still the best-riding bike I have. They probably made decent money on that transaction but I was grateful anyway.
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