Titanium Bacchetta
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Titanium Bacchetta
Postby europa » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:19 pm
titanium Baccetta
8 days to go in the auction. Reckon it'll sell for the current top bid of $10.50?
Richard
8 days to go in the auction. Reckon it'll sell for the current top bid of $10.50?
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Postby Kalgrm » Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:13 pm
Somehow I doubt it! They are now a collectors' item, since Bacchetta won't be making any more. They had a special run of tubing made years ago (they use a tear-drop cross-section shaped tube) and that has now run out. Getting more tubing done is prohibitively expensive with the current very high price of Ti.
Anything less than US$3000 is a bargain for the bike.
You can get a carbon fibre versionthough!
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Anything less than US$3000 is a bargain for the bike.
You can get a carbon fibre versionthough!
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Postby Hotdog » Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:19 pm
Blimey, those are collector's items indeed, and by all accounts fantastic bikes. I almost wish I hadn't seen that, I might fail to resist doing something silly... Fortunately my upcoming holidays will probably save me front splashing out silly money on another bike, I need to save my pennies for my travels.
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Postby Mulger bill » Sat Sep 01, 2007 2:17 am
I'll have a bit of a go at that I will.
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Postby mikesbytes » Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:47 am
Wonder why the gearing has been lowered
If the R-1 rule is broken, what happens to N+1?
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Postby Kalgrm » Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:48 pm
'Bents tend to be difficult to get used to and you need to spin at high cadence to prevent your knees blowing out. My guess is the owner is a little on the heavy side and needed the lower gearing to cope with hills. (He swapped out the standard 11-32 cassette for a 12-27, so needs the tiny small chain ring to compensate.)mikesbytes wrote:Wonder why the gearing has been lowered
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Postby Aushiker » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:32 pm
Whats with the Bidder 01 Bidder 02 ...? Haven't seen this before. Anyone know.
I reckon with the time remaining this may come in under $2,500.
Andrew
I reckon with the time remaining this may come in under $2,500.
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Postby Aushiker » Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:32 pm
Graeme said earlier in this thread "Anything less than US$3000 is a bargain for the bike."europa wrote:Wonder what a fair price for that bike'd be ie, where do we start thinking the buyer got suckered?
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Postby Aushiker » Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:28 pm
Went for $2,515, $15 more than I suggested. Where do I collect my prize?
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Postby Aushiker » Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:41 pm
Yeah sureeuropa wrote:I thought you'd bought it
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Postby Kalgrm » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:45 pm
I set a snipe on it because I knew I'd be away when the auction finished. I didn't really want to win it*, but I would hate to think I missed out on the bargain of the century if it ended up selling for less than $1000. My snipe of $1200 was obviously rejected. The buyer got a good deal - I would have paid AUD$3200 in April had it been for sale then.
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