Thread: Rumors?
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Old 06-28-2004, 04:16 AM   #13 (permalink)
Nora Lenderby
 
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Re: Rumors?

"Just Zis Guy" writes:

> My tourer cost £1500 in 1985. For the same money now I could buy
> somewhat better specified bike from Chas. Roberts, say. That's th
> same cash money, not adjusted for inflation


My husband bought a Dawes Super Galaxy in the mid eighties for £350. Hi
Claud Butler Italia with Campagnolo gears, purchased just a couple o
years previously, was £259. We still have the receipts. A friend of th
family had a fancy Mercian with all the trimmings. We were aghast tha
it cost him £500

Perhaps your old tourer was gold plated

N. Lenderby (Mrs


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