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01-26-20, 02:40 PM
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Fair Price?
Hi all,
Finally getting going on rebuilding my Derosa Frame (Circa '92 I believe or at least between '90-'92). The plan was for full polished Campy Record or Chorus but haven't found anything quite right price and condition wise.
At any rate, the owner of one of our most trusted LBS' here in the desert whom has always been solid for me found some Campy Chorus in his stash bin. 10 speed, but carbon crankset (spider), carbon shifters, and the black carbon inlay on the rear derailleur. Not quite sure model year. The cassette is brand new or so it seems, everything else has been used but look to be in amazing shape and essentially no scratches. The brakes are perfect condition. He mentioned about $475 for the whole group including BB. Is this a reasonable price do you think?
Since I'm now looking at a more retro/modern build if I go with his groupset then I'm thinking of some shallow carbon wheels to go with it. If anyone has done this before, I know that I need to avoid the uber wide rims popular these days, but anything else I need to know? Any idea what the max external width I can go with given Chorus brakeset?
Thanks as always, happy to finally be making some progress with this!
Finally getting going on rebuilding my Derosa Frame (Circa '92 I believe or at least between '90-'92). The plan was for full polished Campy Record or Chorus but haven't found anything quite right price and condition wise.
At any rate, the owner of one of our most trusted LBS' here in the desert whom has always been solid for me found some Campy Chorus in his stash bin. 10 speed, but carbon crankset (spider), carbon shifters, and the black carbon inlay on the rear derailleur. Not quite sure model year. The cassette is brand new or so it seems, everything else has been used but look to be in amazing shape and essentially no scratches. The brakes are perfect condition. He mentioned about $475 for the whole group including BB. Is this a reasonable price do you think?
Since I'm now looking at a more retro/modern build if I go with his groupset then I'm thinking of some shallow carbon wheels to go with it. If anyone has done this before, I know that I need to avoid the uber wide rims popular these days, but anything else I need to know? Any idea what the max external width I can go with given Chorus brakeset?
Thanks as always, happy to finally be making some progress with this!
01-26-20, 02:42 PM
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Almost $500 for a used 10 speed groupset seems a bit much to me, but I'm a cheapskate and it is Chorus.
01-26-20, 05:28 PM
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Is it a 100% full matching group with hubs including skewrers cassette campy chain headset & seat post or just the parts noted? If it is true complete matching group the price is fair if it's just the mentioned parts the price seems a bit high by abut $100-150.
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no skewers or headset. Brakes, derailleurs, crankset, chain, cassette, levers, cables, BB. So too much?
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no skewers or headset. Brakes, derailleurs, crankset, chain, cassette, levers, cables, BB. So too much?
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One thing to consider is that if you buy a incomplete Campy set buying the individual matching pieces to make it complete can get l pricey. One can easily spend more than the price of say a 70% group buying pieces individually to complete things.
