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Old 11-13-08 | 11:00 AM
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Bikes: 1940s Fothergill, 1959 Allegro Special, 1963? Claud Butler Olympic Sprint, Lambert 'Clubman', 1974 Fuji "the Ace", 1976 Holdsworth 650b conversion rando bike, 1983 Trek 720 tourer, 1984 Counterpoint Opus II, 1993 Basso Gap, 2010 Downtube 8h, and...

About 30 years ago I found an unopened bottle of Dom Perignon champagne, dated 1929, in a huge pile of trash removed from a house that was being vacated. I kept that thing like it was some kind of treasure until, a couple years later, my family was moving, so we opened it. No surprise, it had gone bad; in fact it tasted a lot like sherry, but not very good sherry. We poured it out. I would have been better off to leave the bottle unopened.

So my advice is, don't open your NOS, unopened, super rare, dream bike; you'll only ruin it.

Speaking of which, by the way, what IS your dream bike? I'm pretty sure I have one of those in my attic, in just the size you want, which I will be happy to sell you. 100% guaranteed to be just what you want! (sorry, no returns if the box is opened for any reason).
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