On Jan 14, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Phil Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> There is a Long Low prototype for sale here in the Bay Area. The owner >> may post it later but for now contact me. It's 60 by 59 I believe, >> green and white and if it had a bit longer top tube I'd buy it in a >> heartbeat. The price is $1550 and I can put you in touch with the >> seller. > > It's been on sale off and on for the last year or so, right?
What the market will bear, YMMV, IMHO, etc. and other standard disclaimers. Basically IMHO $1550 is much too high a price. As a prototype this frame was built in 1995 or 1996 and sold new for $1100-1400. Even if it's a complete bike, that's just still too much IMHO. I've got a 1996 All-Rounder for which I paid $1400 for the frame/fork plus I think an extra $100 for a cream head tube and a headset. I suppose the total cost was $2500 or so in 1996. Wonderful bike but not, after over 14 years of use and many thousands of miles, worth $1500. If I was brutally objective, $500 would be a stretch. It's a bike, not an original Tiffany lamp or a Nocaster. Of course, the value to me is not monetary- the value to me is the tremendous enjoyment I get from riding it. As enthusiasts are wont to do, we Rivendellians tend to think our Rivs hold value much better than other bikes do, but really that is only going to be within this odd little community of devotees. Outside of our group, the value of a 15 year old Riv isn't going to be much- if any- more than the value of a 15 year old Cannondale to most buyers. There's a caveat, of course. If somebody pays $1550 for this bike and thinks they got a good deal, then they got a good deal. The yardstick we use for measuring value is personal. If I saw it and rode it I might give it that value, too. It's hard to be sure from this side of the keyboard, of course. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
