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[innocuous]

1 hour ago, Shrevvy said:

It is not a stupid question as some do not ride what they collect. Although I do display some of my bikes in my office, I buy them to ride. This one will definitely be ridden.

I bet you also buy slabbed comics, only to crack them out and read them. 

[Shrevvy]

1 minute ago, innocuous said:

I bet you also buy slabbed comics, only to crack them out and read them. 

Now you are just talking crazy.

[jimjum12]

EAGLEMOSS FIGURINES .... made from delicious finger-licking lead  These things have MASS ... and detail. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Robot Man]

3 hours ago, Shrevvy said:

I collect 1970s/1980s race bikes. It was the golden age of steel bikes. This arrived yesterday. It is dirty and in need of some attention, but it will clean up nicely. For those that don't know, Greg Lemond was the first and only American to win the Tour de France. His first win was in 1986 and the next year he launched his own bike line. The bike pictured below was one of the first pre-production bikes used to promote the brand. The "DS" stamp on the bottom bracket notes that it was hand-built by Roland Della Santa. Just months prior, Della Santa would have built the bike that Greg Lemond rode in the Tour de France. I've been looking for one of these for a few years. Lucky to find one in my size.

A very beautiful piece of machinery. Carefully crafted by hand and treasured by it’s owner. Lemond is a legend by cyclists. A great score. I figured you were going to ride it as you should. 

I have a full Campy early ‘80’s Colnago. Bought it new and used to ride it daily. All hand brazed with full hand done cutouts. Rode many centuries on it. My favorite ride was the Tecate to Ensenada ride in Mexico. I now have some tendinitis and a cyaticia so my long riding days are over. I do enjoy riding up and down Pacific Coast Highway along the beach. I long ago ditched the sew up tires. Got tired of fixing flats every time I went for a ride. 

Enjoy your new ride! 

[Shrevvy]

1 hour ago, Robot Man said:

I have a full Campy early ‘80’s Colnago. Bought it new and used to ride it daily. All hand brazed with full hand done cutouts. Rode many centuries on it. My favorite ride was the Tecate to Ensenada ride in Mexico. I now have some tendinitis and a cyaticia so my long riding days are over. I do enjoy riding up and down Pacific Coast Highway along the beach. I long ago ditched the sew up tires. Got tired of fixing flats every time I went for a ride. 

Enjoy your new ride! 

Very nice! I do not have a Colnago, but would like to have one at some point. I have never ridden out west, but it is on my list of something to do. I figure I need to start traveling for cycling rides. Otherwise, the opportunity will eventually pass me by. You have some great riding in out there. 

Funny on the sew ups/tubulars. The Lemond has clinchers, but I plan to put tubulars on it. The Trek has Veloflex clinchers (hand made in Italy) that ride as nice as tubulars. The Huffy has tubulars. I go back and forth between the two.  

[Robot Man]

Take it from me. Ride while you still can. As you get older your parts wear out. 

Yeah, nothing like a pair of smooth sew ups. But I like to not have to worry about where I ride and having to fix flats. 

Yeah lots of good places to ride here. I go a few blocks and catch the riverbed  bike path about 1/2 mile to the beach. Get up early and I can ride maybe 20-25 miles along the beach with very few people. I can truck my bike out to the desert and ride as long as I want. Too old for the mountain rides anymore. We can ride all year long out here.

I am also into antique and vintage motorcycles. I’ve gotta say, at my age, the lure of rolling the throttle and the side hand shift is pretty strong. 

Either one involves a keen perception of traffic which we have a lot of. 

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by Robot Man

[fishbone]

On 5/14/2021 at 9:28 PM, Albert Thurgood said:

Haha, yes it can be! But none of my rugs are as valuable as my AF15 or even Hulk 181. Also, unlike them, they will not increase in value over the years.

trust me, give me AF15's and Hulk 181's all day - couldn't care less about a rug!   Plus, I don't need the Dude's problems !

 

[PopKulture]

When will CGC start grading my old potato sacks??

Yes, I do really collect some oddball carp.  

Edited May 21, 2021 by PopKulture

[Shrevvy]

I mentioned in another thread that I would pay stupid money for an actual Greg Lemond raced pro bike. Well, here it is...This took a while to get the deal done, but I am very pleased. This was raced in the US and Europe by Greg Lemond in 1981, his first pro season. The pic on the wall is him winning the Nevada City Classic on this bike very bike. This is pretty much as he left it in 1981 including the Bernard Hinualt tubular tires that still hold air (won't be putting too many miles on those...). We gently cleaned the bike and it is ready to ride. If it wasn't cold and wet here, I would have already taken this out. How many times do you get to use the equipment of a elite athlete? Pretty excited about this purchase.

[mtracy64]

Pre-WWII beer cans and records - primarily The Yardbirds, but the very early Pink Floyd also.

 

 

[MattTheDuck]

On 11/1/2021 at 2:27 PM, mtracy64 said:

Pre-WWII beer cans and records - primarily The Yardbirds, but the very early Pink Floyd also.

 

 

Finding those sleeves in that condition can't have been easy!

By the way, which one's Pink?

[mtracy64]

On 11/1/2021 at 6:21 PM, MattTheDuck said:

Finding those sleeves in that condition can't have been easy!

By the way, which one's Pink?

 

Ha, I'm sure Roger Waters considers himself Pink, but Syd Barrett named the band and was principal songwriter, lead singer and lead guitarist. He has to be Pink, despite only being in the band for roughly two years because the band never would have existed without him.

I collected through the 1980's and until 1996 or 1997 before selling. I started collecting again about ten years ago, and the timing was quite fortuitous. Prices were down and rarities were popping up with surprising regularity. It should have taken much longer to find these than it did.

[Christopher Story]

I love old guitars.  Here are a few of my favorites.  Two rare late 60’s Rickenbacker 360Fs and a ‘59 Fender Esquire.  Love vintage tube amps too.

[PopKulture]

On 11/1/2021 at 4:27 PM, mtracy64 said:

Pre-WWII beer cans and records - primarily The Yardbirds, but the very early Pink Floyd also.

 

I'm a long-time fan of Pink Floyd, but admittedly the Gilmore years. I appreciate the scarcity of your Barrett-era treasure trove, however.

Your beer cans make my mouth water, and not just with the promise of aged hops. Those are the exact sort I fell in love with pouring over Martells' Beer Can Bible those many moons ago in the 70's and thereafter. The bocks always caught my eye, and those two shown are among the best. The other cans that I always seemed to favor were, no surprise here, by Grace Bros. Somehow I was always drawn to them. I for one would love any further glimpses of your collection. 

By the way, what's the most recent price for a Clipper Pale? Have the top cans followed a similar trajectory as comics these past few years?  

[mtracy64]

On 11/1/2021 at 11:50 PM, PopKulture said:

I'm a long-time fan of Pink Floyd, but admittedly the Gilmore years. I appreciate the scarcity of your Barrett-era treasure trove, however.

Your beer cans make my mouth water, and not just with the promise of aged hops. Those are the exact sort I fell in love with pouring over Martells' Beer Can Bible those many moons ago in the 70's and thereafter. The bocks always caught my eye, and those two shown are among the best. The other cans that I always seemed to favor were, no surprise here, by Grace Bros. Somehow I was always drawn to them. I for one would love any further glimpses of your collection. 

By the way, what's the most recent price for a Clipper Pale? Have the top cans followed a similar trajectory as comics these past few years?  

I'm a big fan of the later Pink Floyd as well, but there's so much to collect that I decided to stick to just the Barrett stuff. That music, and the Yardbirds stuff, has a timeless, almost magical quality to it and I can listen endlessly.

Collecting current and recently obsolete beer cans was very popular with kids for a few years in the mid-1970's, so I wondered if anybody here had collected or knew about the older cans. I put that hobby aside when I discovered girls and cars, but got interested again around 1990. The internet, primarily eBay, drove prices way up in the late 1990's. Once things settled down, we had a healthy, mature market with slow increases over time. That went out the window last summer. Most better cans sell at auction now, and selling prices often don't make sense - very high is one thing, but prices often don't make sense relative to other cans sold at the same time. Many sell 25% t0 50% higher than we're used to, but an alarming number sell at multiples of what we're used to and there's no rhyme or reason to it.

I always felt the way you did about the bocks. The finest collection ever assembled sold in early 2019, and the buyer is a friend (and dealer). I found out a few days ahead of most people, and went outside my normal price range for those two. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I knew I'd hate myself if I didn't.

I don't think a really clean Clipper Pale was known until a lady found one in an old house about 20 years ago. She put it on eBay and got a little over $19,000 for it, which is still the highest eBay result for a beer can. She went back and found 11 more (that's her story, anyhow . . .). To her credit, she gave the initial buyer another one and sold the rest to a dealer. They sold at around $7,500 each. I haven't seen one sell since then.

I moved a while back and haven't put shelves up, but I'll post more photos when I do.

[Robot Man]

On 11/1/2021 at 7:57 PM, Christopher Story said:

I love old guitars.  Here are a few of my favorites.  Two rare late 60’s Rickenbacker 360Fs and a ‘59 Fender Esquire.  Love vintage tube amps too.

Yes, quite rare indeed!

Tube amps? Me too, especially if they are vintage...

[Christopher Story]

[PopKulture]

Here are a few first issue magazines I picked up fairly recently, although the Cleopatra is more properly a one-shot. 

 

[PopKulture]

Here are a few things from this weekend’s toy show, including a set of three premium comic books, a Pied Piper shoes cut-out book, a nice Victorian game board, a Bugs Bunny alarm clock, a Roy Rogers plastic cup, a Little Orphan Annie Ovaltine mug and a fold-out Roy Rogers paper premium.

 

[The Black Hand ®]

Lately I'm just collecting dust.