RE: [RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-31 Thread Frederick, Steve
-bunch@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [RBW] Re: Bonkers If it goes for $3K or so, and to someone who has always wanted one and now has the money to buy it, and will ride it, hey, nothing wrong with that. What a great bike out of the box to ride everywhere! But if it's some collector who

[RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-31 Thread cm
If they can sell it for that much (or likely more) good for them. And if the person who wants to buy it wants stick in the bicycle room, who cares? There are old pennies, nickels, and dimes that are worth a lot more than a penny, nickel, or dime and if someone wants to buy them and stick them in a

Re: [RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-31 Thread cyclotourist
I disagree. Whether Monets, bikes or pennies, collecting stuff for the purpose of collecting is pretty sucktastic. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:07 AM, cm chrispmur...@hotmail.com wrote: If they can sell it for that much (or likely more) good for them. And if the person who wants to buy it wants

Re: [RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-31 Thread PATRICK MOORE
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:20 AM, cyclotourist cyclotour...@gmail.comwrote: I disagree. Whether Monets, bikes or pennies, collecting stuff for the purpose of collecting is pretty sucktastic. I wouldn't go as far as Jim (it *is* Jim, is it not?), but I too am surprised and amused by the XO

[RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-31 Thread newenglandbike
I agree on the collectors who will hoard things in a closet, so to speak- but on the other hand, if we didn't have museums (which are really just collectors, institutionalized) artifacts would be doomed to oblivion through usage, or complete metamorphosis by way of repair, to the point where

[RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-31 Thread newenglandbike
I agree on the collectors who will hoard things in a closet, so to speak- but on the other hand, if we didn't have museums (which are really just collectors, institutionalized) artifacts would be doomed to oblivion through usage, or complete metamorphosis by way of repair, to the point where

Re: [RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-31 Thread cyclotourist
Winning bid was $2225. That doesn't seem bad to me for a nice bike that's pretty special. Can't get small diameter tubes like that on a all-rounder bike anymore. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:51 PM, newenglandbike matthiasbe...@gmail.comwrote: I agree on the collectors who will hoard things in

Re: [RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-31 Thread cyclotourist
I hope they ride it into the ground! :-) On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:13 PM, cyclotourist cyclotour...@gmail.comwrote: Winning bid was $2225. That doesn't seem bad to me for a nice bike that's pretty special. Can't get small diameter tubes like that on a all-rounder bike anymore. On Wed,

[RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-31 Thread RonaTD
I like the fact that it's the only one that's selling. Well, my condolences to the seller, of course, but I think it says a lot about what Grant has accomplished in the last 20 years. td -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To

[RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-31 Thread cm
I hope they do whatever they want with it (though admittedly I would ride it into the ground). Cheers! cm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe

[RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-30 Thread doug peterson
Well, it's still for sale. I like the bit about part of a 20 year collection we're selling. But wait! There's more! Let's see, $2k for nice old classic or the better part of a new Hunq? Hdifferent markets, I suppose. dougP On Mar 29, 8:58 pm, cyclotourist cyclotour...@gmail.com

Re: [RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-30 Thread cyclotourist
If it goes for $3K or so, and to someone who has always wanted one and now has the money to buy it, *and will ride it*, hey, nothing wrong with that. What a great bike out of the box to ride everywhere! But if it's some collector who is going to put it in the Fancy Rare Bicycle Room which

Re: [RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-30 Thread Jason Hartman
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:23 PM, cyclotourist cyclotour...@gmail.comwrote: If it goes for $3K or so, and to someone who has always wanted one and now has the money to buy it, *and will ride it*, hey, nothing wrong with that. What a great bike out of the box to ride everywhere! But if it's

Re: [RBW] Re: Bonkers

2010-03-30 Thread cyclotourist
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Jason Hartman rjasonhart...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:23 PM, cyclotourist cyclotour...@gmail.comwrote: If it goes for $3K or so, and to someone who has always wanted one and now has the money to buy it, *and will ride it*, hey, nothing wrong