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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Northern California
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Bikes: Cheltenham-Pedersen racer, Boulder F/S Paris-Roubaix, Varsity racer, '52 Christophe, '62 Continental, '92 Merckx, '75 Limongi, '76 Presto, '72 Gitane SC, '71 Schwinn SS, etc.
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In terms of "investment", it's not the MSRP price at the new-retail level that should be considered imo.
The investment opportunity with these old bikes is buying them when they are being sold used, for a small fraction of their original price, then holding them until they go back up in price, perhaps as high or higher than their original price.
The key pieces of information we have to guess at is 1) when will the price be lowest, and 2) which bikes are then likely to escalate in value within what we consider as a reasonable amount of time, with respect to competing investment opportunities.