I don't think he bought it recently but he is the one who had it powdercoated. I had bid on this before but didn't reach reserve. I wasn't going to pay too much for a bike w/out seals.
Am I missing something about reserve. Let's say I bid a max of $300 and someone else bids $100, my bid gets set to $101, even if reserve is set to $200, my bid stays at $101 and reserve isn't reached? Is that correct? Because my max bid in that auction, which may or may not have reached reserve, wasn't automatically bid.
I had bid on this bike with the specific intention of stripping it an repainting it. A nice looking hot pink (wet paint) is a maybe. Hot pink powdercoat with lousy looking lettering, nah-ah.
As far as Klein not being tasteful, I say, take a look at many of their solid color ones, painted desert, or sea and sky. Understated and I daresay, hard to say it's distasteful.