Originally Posted by
webike4fun
Sorry doesn't meet your standards.... I'm new to the vintage stuff and the guys I trust here in san Diego were pretty stoked....Everyone thought it was in great condition. I did not know about the re-paint but Cyclearts, well who else would you have paint your bike besides maybe Joe Bell, also here in san Diego. A Galmozzi is RARE....I've only seen one. The new owner will be stoked! BIG PICTURE GUYS:-a cheap tiawanese carbon bike is 3000.00 and Trek has pimped all there carbon stuff out too. So we are in a very limited market for classic steel framsets. This one with the period correct adjustments will be a GREAT vintage ride. When the cycling world rediscovers steel, as I believe it will, this framesets with be worth a lot more...I know people in the vintage car market and their debates are the same....which year Mustang was the best or the GTO that sold at the Barrett Auto auction had new, machined brake calipers not the original ones.......And there are no original brake calipers on the planet! Well, the car is still rare and cool.....And thats what the new owner paid for.....So, the Galmozzi, despite the criticisms, is still a really cool vintage bike. And the new owner can add his own "sweat" equity to the bike by finding the period correct parts and that is why we do this vintage thing: the process and the the history. Cheap Tiawanese bikes have no soul. This bike, as many of the vintage bikes you have, have soul! We all know it, we can feel it and thats what make us different and our bikes different! MY .02
Nothing wrong with being "new" to something, nobody is born knowing anything. But to me it's best to learn a little more on the subject before making big claims and assumptions.
If you had followed up with pictures on your original thread I think you would have received the facts needed to sell this bike properly. Not just going off half-cocked that it's RARE. I think you got lucky that somebody bought it at your price. If they're happy with their purchase so be it.
It still is a great bike, but unfortunately restored at a time when the appreciation of bikes like this was very limited. The "soul" you speak of was removed from the this bike at that time paint was stripped off.
So now the bike should go to Joe Bell, or Brian Baylis. Have the offending braze-on's removed and re-painted with proper decals. Excellent original parts will need to be tracked down. And in the end the new owner will have about five grand invested in a really nice Galmozzi restoration. Will it be worth it? To somebody, probably yes.