Originally Posted by
El Chaba
While it is definitely now a buyer’s market, the demand and prices never drop for the really swanky stuff. A pre 1980 DeRosa in great shape, a Herse in any shape, NOS Campagnolo just to name a few categories never go anywhere but up in price….
Do you think so?
In the last Copake auction, a Sachs went for $1200 and a Herse went for $1320. I don’t have a lot of historical data on prices for the high end C&V market, but these prices seem lower than what I had become conditioned to believe. To me it is encouraging in that it means I may actually be able to pick one of these up one day.
I didn’t grow up with these bikes, and have no emotional connection to the nostalgia. I think they are beautiful and I like the ride. I love them, from a love developed and cultivated, not from a past history. But I do think I am an anomaly, at least certainly to the point of people like me not being able to overcome the sheer amount of bicycles that will become available as more collectors age out and people move to e-bikes and other factors.