Originally Posted by
CliffordK
The thing that has been going bonkers is the Campagnolo 50th Anniversary Edition Group Sets. With documentation, and in the original box. NOS.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/255765734453
Prices vary a bit, but I think they went up by a couple thousand in the last few years. Quite a few of them keep popping up on E-Bay.
I'm seeing prices from $4300 up to about $6400.
Yeah, that's a good example of the 70s to 80s riders who went on to have wealth chasing the dream group of their racing days.
Granted, a lot of cyclists from that era (and other eras!) are just ne'er do well weirdos who aren't going to have the money to drive up the value of anything. They're well represented on this forum.
But in the last 10 or 15 years, people who would have played golf in the past now race bikes. They are more normal people. People who run companies and accumulate wealth. My guess is that at some point some cycling stuff will become valuable, like a post on this forum that is conversational and intelligent.