Old 05-29-18 | 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by cycleheimer
The nice looking woman on the cover has got to be around 70 now!!! BTW, I was riding the wheels off my Schwinn Varsity back then. The Raleigh Grand Prix was somewhat of an exotic, high-end import to the average guy in 1972!
Well, I'm not far behind her so she may still be a "fox" LOL. One of my friend's had a Varsity at the same time and another had a Nishiki, we rode all over the place. Yeah, to a 16 year old kid in a small Midwest farm town the Grand Prix was a pretty fancy piece of equipment, I'd love to have another one just for old time sake but the prices they are asking for them are INSANE!!! I'm sorry but they weren't that good to bring that kind of money, I bought a pretty nice '85 Prestige for less than what they want for an early 70's GP in the same condition. Don't remember much about my one friend's Nishiki except it was a cool metallic green and had aluminum wheels vs. the steel wheels on my Grand Prix. He was a year younger than me and he got a '67 VW convertible for his 16th birthday the next year, we never saw the Nishiki again and I'm pretty sure it's the last bike he ever rode.
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