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05-22-19, 01:25 PM
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I was following this in hopes of maybe scoring a $10 C-Record pista axle/cone/nut combo, but it just became wacky:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Campagnolo-...-/303155750282
Campagnolo sheriff star front hub. (broken)
Condition: For parts or not working
“Used and broken”
Ended: May 22, 2019 , 1:43PM
Winning bid:US $142.50
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Campagnolo-...-/303155750282
Campagnolo sheriff star front hub. (broken)
Condition: For parts or not working
“Used and broken”
Ended: May 22, 2019 , 1:43PM
Winning bid:US $142.50
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05-22-19, 06:53 PM
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05-22-19, 08:04 PM
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I was following this in hopes of maybe scoring a $10 C-Record pista axle/cone/nut combo, but it just became wacky:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Campagnolo-...-/303155750282
Campagnolo sheriff star front hub. (broken)
Condition: For parts or not working
“Used and broken”
Ended: May 22, 2019 , 1:43PM
Winning bid:US $142.50
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Campagnolo-...-/303155750282
Campagnolo sheriff star front hub. (broken)
Condition: For parts or not working
“Used and broken”
Ended: May 22, 2019 , 1:43PM
Winning bid:US $142.50
OUCH!!!
Hopefully the buyer actually read the ad. Static display?
Those aren't cheap hubs.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-MIN...6/392299758876
They'd go well with the Mavic Star Fish cranks.
05-23-19, 06:39 AM
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/Campagnolo-.../303156780927/
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05-23-19, 12:08 PM
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Any notions (if the thought isn't too disturbing) what poor lugged-frame bike gave up it soul for this?:
https://madison.craigslist.org/bik/d...895673851.html
(Those poor Suntour shifters are screaming for mercy.)
https://madison.craigslist.org/bik/d...895673851.html
Green Bay Packers Vintage Bike - $240 (Capital area)
(Those poor Suntour shifters are screaming for mercy.)
05-25-19, 09:16 AM
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Geez man, Gears are those round things with teeth on them. Those look like shifters to me.
https://sanmarcos.craigslist.org/bik...895472035.html
https://sanmarcos.craigslist.org/bik...895472035.html
05-25-19, 10:16 AM
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05-26-19, 01:08 AM
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Ok, so I've been looking at cars a little bit too.
I'm not quite sure how I'd classify this one.
1943 FORD rat rod BURMA JEEP BOMB CARRIER RATROD $23,000
Mad Max anybody?
Hollywood Reject?
I'm not quite sure how I'd classify this one.
1943 FORD rat rod BURMA JEEP BOMB CARRIER RATROD $23,000
Mad Max anybody?
Hollywood Reject?
05-26-19, 03:40 AM
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Ok, so I've been looking at cars a little bit too.
I'm not quite sure how I'd classify this one.
1943 FORD rat rod BURMA JEEP BOMB CARRIER RATROD $23,000
Mad Max anybody?
Hollywood Reject?
I'm not quite sure how I'd classify this one.
1943 FORD rat rod BURMA JEEP BOMB CARRIER RATROD $23,000
Mad Max anybody?
Hollywood Reject?
05-26-19, 05:43 AM
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The cow catcher should toss cows, bicycles, cars, and trucks aside... just about anything in front of the beast!!!
05-26-19, 06:17 AM
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05-26-19, 07:43 AM
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What makes you think I said it was wacky? Many have not seen and/or are not aware that Jack builds some killer frames. If it were 54, I would pony up.
05-26-19, 07:55 AM
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Simultaneously "beautiful and fast" and "never built." One has to marvel that such a thing is possible.
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05-26-19, 08:54 AM
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05-26-19, 09:25 AM
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I was inferring that from the fact that you replied to a thread with the title, "The Wacky World of Craigslist and eBay Ads."
05-26-19, 09:38 AM
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Ah. Mea Culpa. Should have been in the finds thread. I didn't pay enough attention to the thread title.
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05-27-19, 08:30 PM
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As for the finder/poster's "classify" question, I'd be tempted to classify it as "mine", if I had a place to keep it.
05-27-19, 09:40 PM
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$23K is quite a chunk of change, but looks a bit low considering the amount of parts and customization that went into that thing.
It doesn't appear as if it would be hardly practical for anything. Grocery Getter?
Maybe you could add a trailer hitch, but it would be odd with the distance between the rear wheels and the hitch, although the trailer should follow well.
If you plugged the now open fender wells, you could haul a ton of gravel in the bed, but no way to dump it out, so hand shoveling.
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Time to enlarge the garage?
$23K is quite a chunk of change, but looks a bit low considering the amount of parts and customization that went into that thing.
It doesn't appear as if it would be hardly practical for anything. Grocery Getter?
Maybe you could add a trailer hitch, but it would be odd with the distance between the rear wheels and the hitch, although the trailer should follow well.
If you plugged the now open fender wells, you could haul a ton of gravel in the bed, but no way to dump it out, so hand shoveling.
$23K is quite a chunk of change, but looks a bit low considering the amount of parts and customization that went into that thing.
It doesn't appear as if it would be hardly practical for anything. Grocery Getter?
Maybe you could add a trailer hitch, but it would be odd with the distance between the rear wheels and the hitch, although the trailer should follow well.
If you plugged the now open fender wells, you could haul a ton of gravel in the bed, but no way to dump it out, so hand shoveling.
05-29-19, 07:17 PM
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Eddy Merckx - No frame damage ;) only $400!
Looks ready to ride! Seller says it has a bent fork, but the frame is FINE. I don’t know about you, but I trust him at his word! Why would he lie? It’s not like we can just look at the photos to determine ourselves or anything 
https://offerup.co/NNEKVj0b6W
https://offerup.co/NNEKVj0b6W
05-29-19, 07:45 PM
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Looks ready to ride! Seller says it has a bent fork, but the frame is FINE. I don’t know about you, but I trust him at his word! Why would he lie? It’s not like we can just look at the photos to determine ourselves or anything
https://offerup.co/NNEKVj0b6W
https://offerup.co/NNEKVj0b6W
It is simply mounted backwards!!!!
Uggh!!!!!!!
I can't tell if the frame is bent. It does look like it to me, but it is hard to discern for sure.
However, I think the bigger issue is that there are two Merckx bikes.
The first gen "Falcon" Merckx bikes get little love
And the second gen "Merckx" bikes that are really quite nice.
Unfortunately the seller has a first gen Falcon (I think, they normally have wrap-around seat stays), complete with bottom of the line Simplex components.
Even in perfect condition, one would struggle to get $250 for that bike.
In it's current condition... maybe $50 if the frame is straight.
Of course, this could be one of those fat finger ads, and the seller just accidentally kept hitting more zeros than intended.
Or, he simply forgot to add the ever so important period between the 4 and all those zeros!!!
400 what? Yen?
Ahhh, yes, it does say "Falcon, England".
I wonder if the wrap-around stays are on a second tier Falcon, and the one he has is the lowest of the low.
05-29-19, 11:17 PM
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05-29-19, 11:37 PM
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A few weeks back i told the the EM seller to find another LBS after he was told it wasn't involved in a crash.