Hi All,
I'm gathering books and info for our app. I have the J. Barnette 4 volume set (from library), today my 2nd ed (paperback) edition of the famed BigBlueBook (BB2/BBB)came in. I'm impressed! It is blue,
but its really not all that big in the paperback edition. I like the layout and the many color, well composed, and carefully considered pictures. You'd have to chop up a couple of bikes to see what these thoughtfully posed pictures show. (Calvin must have been up nights with a band-saw for a couple of weeks anyway
not to mention files & steel brush ? Beautiful work imho!
Anyway, I thought was interesting that I found this book
for about $16 from Amazon Market Place / The Bike Store (CA). It arrived in like 2 days to Wisconsin (!) for something another $6. I'm cheap but anything below the $25 that helps things seems like a pretty good deal to me. Sure wish component manufacturers and Bike assemblers had manuals anything like this for their products!
So here's my question:
- When I bought this I was seeing USED BB3 books for $70 and some plus kind of prices (and NOTHING less).
- What's going on here?
- Are the old hardbacks (I assume) that have some collector value / or are they better somehow.
- At the same time I vaguely remember reading that 2nd edition has some new sections/somethings reorganized - so what is going on here?
Michael