legrandefromage":1jy9jwlr said:
You say ''roadie'', but initially I were only interested in mountainbiking and mountainbikes. That lasted for almost 20 years long. At some point I decided I were done with mountainbikes and also health issues forced me to do some more moderate touring, so roadbikes caught my interest and I started to ride them intensively. That is now only 2 or 3 years ago.
I took off collecting roadbikes at a much greater pace as what had been the case with MTBs. Like all I too have to deal with the usual constraints in money, time and space, so sometimes when something comes is another thing has to go. Also happenings like for example a move caused reinventarisations of what I really need.
The first roadbike I let go was actually a crossbike. It was about 2 years ago that I advertised below NR/Cinelli/Mafac/Turbo specced Guerciotti for if I recall correctly 135 euro shipped overhere. After many weeks of waiting still no takers :? In the end it sold to an in house architect from Amsterdam who considered it the right bike for visiting his clients.
I think of all the bikes I let go I regret the Champion Mondial Time Trial (frame) the most. See picture below (I do not even have a proper pic of it
) That would have been so awesome finished with DA 7402, AX brakes, Syncros stem & Ti post and yellow Vredestein tyres. Fortunately recent acquires of two other CM TT machines prooved to be a good medicine to soften the pain a bit