Re: Qui Si Parla Campagnolo?

carlfogel@xxxxxxxxxxx may have said:
A rare bicycle worth about $10,000 has been stolen from Vecchio's Bike
Shop, 1833 Pearl St.
The "one-of-a-kind" Calfee-brand road bike went missing about 3 p.m.
Aug. 27 after an employee put it near the front door for about five
minutes, said Peter Chisholm, shop owner.
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The 56 cm Calfee Dragon Fly road bike was one of the most expensive
bikes the shop carries, and it was being prepared for an avid Boulder
cyclist, Chisholm said. It's black, with some blue in the corners,
Topolino wheels and Campagnolo gears.

Werehatrack wrote:
Any bets that by now it's been spraypainted, and the bars, fork and
front wheel swapped with junk from a beater mountain bike?
I say that only because I saw a Trek Madone not too long ago which had
been recovered in a similar state of insult and injury. I do not know
if the head tube had survived the shoehorning of the other fork into
it. It looked like there had been electrical tape wound around the
headset cups before they were smashed into the frame. The bike was in
the back seat of a police car. The rider, who had apparently been
apprehended for some other offense, was being loaded into the back
seat of another unit.

I lost some Basso Team bikes (NYC bike show!) in a burglary once. Fifteen years later the rusty (serial numbered) frames turned up in the basement of a house for rent, all the Campagnolo and other equipment was likely sold right away.
Sunday's Chicago Tribune said cars stolen during/after Katrina are turning up all over South America particularly in Bolivia(!)
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