For Sale: Cinelli Laser pursuit

Excuse me for sounding a snob but I really don't think £2k is that much money? It is in the sense that if I lost 2k, I'd be pissed, but I know some people that pay that sort of money for a years car insurance..

I come from a motor racing background, a historic piece is everything. I think judging this bike on it's condition of the paint work is irrelevant, it is what it is. If this where a car, it'd be a Ferrari 250gto, which sold for $41m. You're telling me something which such an iconic status is not worth 2k?

I think some people think a fat London banker is going to buy this frame whilst sitting with his feet up, fingers full of gold rings counting his money and laughing because he's got more money and he's not going to ride the frame. Horror of all horrors, a fucking cyclist buys this?

Also while I'm at it, if someone buys this and keeps it on there wall or rides it, I don't give a shit, neither should you.

I also love how people try and value things "no way is any steel frame worth over £500 etc etc". Bollocks.

I just bought this.

Nice to see someone posting a sale on a forum and indicates he will not respond on the forum in the first post....

I imagine he has posted this on every fixed gear forum he can find- responding on all of them would be a significant task.

I imagine he has posted this on every fixed gear forum he can find- responding on all of them would be a significant task.

That's what eBay is for

eBay will take 10% - which in this case would probably be $700, if the chap gets what he wants for the frame.

Has it been established why there are different contact emails in each listing?

hoax.

http://cs9406.vk.me/v9406033/554/p39bvFF-7_c.jpg

http://www.lme.com/metals/steel-billet/

i am not sure the level of English will allow to understand the subtleties of your humor...

would it be ok to powdercoat this?

http://www.lme.com/metals/steel-billet/

Ha!

Excuse me for sounding a snob but I really don't think £2k is that much money? It is in the sense that if I lost 2k, I'd be pissed, but I know some people that pay that sort of money for a years car insurance..

I come from a motor racing background, a historic piece is everything. I think judging this bike on it's condition of the paint work is irrelevant, it is what it is. If this where a car, it'd be a Ferrari 250gto, which sold for $41m. You're telling me something which such an iconic status is not worth 2k?

I think some people think a fat London banker is going to buy this frame whilst sitting with his feet up, fingers full of gold rings counting his money and laughing because he's got more money and he's not going to ride the frame. Horror of all horrors, a fucking cyclist buys this?

Also while I'm at it, if someone buys this and keeps it on there wall or rides it, I don't give a shit, neither should you.

I also love how people try and value things "no way is any steel frame worth over £500 etc etc". Bollocks.

When this guy is surrounded by rare cycling exotica, then you'll be right about the value of this.

Right now the market doesn't have professional speculators who will bid the price up, sit on it, then release it to the market with a load of hype etc.

Has it been established why there are different contact emails in each listing?

I would guess so that he can work out which forum/listing people are responding from, as it were.

would it be ok to powdercoat this?

Have I was thinking the other day about Duncan's face if somebody would have brought this in hahaha

When this guy is surrounded by rare cycling exotica, then you'll be right about the value of this.

Right now the market doesn't have professional speculators who will bid the price up, sit on it, then release it to the market with a load of hype etc.

actually, I'm sure the vintage bike market does have speculators of some sort. prices are well inflated with the right italian name or jepenese stamp engraved in the steel and I'm sure there are people living from selling old shit to gullible teens who just want a cool fixie.

I really like that apparantly this is a story about some random young fixie skidder stumbling upon a golden treasure and not a fat sweaty speculator.

This is what a bicycle collector thinks he is doing:

This is what other people think a bicycle collector is doing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4iw8Ppo1o

actually, I'm sure the vintage bike market does have speculators of some sort. prices are well inflated with the right italian name or jepenese stamp engraved in the steel and I'm sure there are people living from selling old shit to gullible teens who just want a cool fixie.

I really like that apparantly this is a story about some random young fixie skidder stumbling upon a golden treasure and not a fat sweaty speculator.

To a certain extent I am sure that this is true - but the money is orders of magnitude below cars of comparable vintage/history.

As in- this Laser will probably go for a few thousand pounds, a Ferrari GTO would be how many million?

That aside, what I was trying (badly) to convey is that what the bike market doesn't have the kind of following (by people with serious money) that the classic car market does.

If it did there would be positives- of a sort.

For example if the BB shell of this laser has a specific serial number stamped into it then one of the classic car resto lot would remake the whole frame if all they had was the BB shell.

But the frames would need to change hands for significant money for that to be worth their while.

I really like that apparantly this is a story about some random young fixie skidder stumbling upon a golden treasure and not a fat sweaty speculator.

And that... is why I'm still reading this thread and desperate to find out how much it ends up selling for

Likewise - mad money makes me feel sane. Here's where people buy with the head rather than the heart maybe?

I love this frame...

I love this thread! It makes me laugh at some of the posts.

When this guy is surrounded by rare cycling exotica, then you'll be right about the value of this.

Who the hell is that?!? That's a lot of rare metal. 908/3, GTR Longtail, 917, Mirage!

Ermergheddd!

good luck to the guy. i hope he gets as much as he can for them...

good luck to the guy. i hope he gets as much as he can for them...

Ditto, I just hope he has the decency to post a photo of his profits when they sell.