So I'm doing a quick local Craigslist scan
and up pops this:

http://sacramento.craigslist.org/bik/2079230785.html

which at 62cm is exactly an inch too big
to do me any good. I dutifully post it to
the bicycle addicts thread at:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...=#post11842131

and go on about my business, but am so
moved when bobbycorno yanks my chain
a little that I send off this e-mail:

"Sir:

Alas, would that your bicycle were an inch shorter
or my legs an inch longer. Were that so, I would buy
this in a heartbeat. If you are selling this, the mind
reals with the possibilities

Best,
Mike Larmer"

Now about a week goes by, and in the meantime
I've gone out and bought a really nice mid 80's
Miele that is built up Campagnolo and very well
cared for to kind of ease the hurt a little.

At which time I get this e-mail:

"A shop told me I measured wrong, and they say it is 59cm center bb to center top tube. Call if interested,"

To cut to the chase, see photos. It cost more
than the Miele, and appears to have been rode
hard and put away wet a few times, but I've
worked with considerably worse.

Is there a lesson here (other than that Craigslist
in general is a cluster****)? I honestly could not
begin to tell you.

Respectfully submitted,
Mike Larmer