• Looked at steel-vintage.com for the first time in a while and it seems as though their prices have effectively doubled. Take this Benotto with middling components for €1300 https://steel-vintage.com/benotto-200806-03

    Are Steel Vintage milking the market (I'm going to guess, yes) or are prices genuinely rising this high now?

  • I noticed last year they started charging ridiculous prices. 75k for Mosers training bike was a tad higher than I expected. I reckon their overheads are pretty high, the cafe part of their shop was rammed out at lunchtimes and they also opened another cafe (I looked at the same space but rent was too high) right before Covid lockdown. I tried to buy a Coca Cola water bottle of them last summer one of the free ones they throw out at the Tour de France, they wanted 100€ but there’s folk out there that will pay that so the market for them is there. And when they do buy second hand stuff off the public they’re looking for a huge markup. It’s a lovely shop to visit and they used to do a flea market once in a while. Velociao is the go to store over here in Berlin for classic stuff and restaurations, they don’t really advertise what they have anymore but the owner Robert is always helpful for certain bits etc. There’s a member here who works for steelvintage I think @Sig_Arlecchino he might have some info, overall fairplay to them for making a passion into a business. I’ve seen the same thing with the vinyl record business over the last year some folk will pay crazy prices so the market however niche explains the markups

  • The big ADR Corsa Extra is lovely but £1,800 with Athena is at least £1,000 too strong

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