If it is the one I am thinking of, it also has a small dimple on the top tube. Replace the tube and repaint it and then maybe $1K. Not sure is this bike has anything more going for it than a new Waterford built Sam...the price of which just got increased by Riv today.
On Jan 14, 2:23 pm, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: > On Jan 14, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Phil Brown <philcyc...@gmail.com> 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 rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
