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Firenze Italian road bike on Craigslist, LOL
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/d/concord-firenze-gl5000-italian-vintage/6990187709.html
These bicycles were given away by an electronics store back in the 1980's if you bought a TV or stereo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ke1tc4pWGA. |
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Firenze Italian road bike on Craigslist, LOL
On 10/1/2019 7:00 AM, sms wrote:
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/d/concord-firenze-gl5000-italian-vintage/6990187709.html These bicycles were given away by an electronics store back in the 1980's if you bought a TV or stereo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ke1tc4pWGA. I know that guy (the creator of 'Buy a TV, Get a Bike!'). He says the lines at my bike shop in April gave him the idea. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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Firenze Italian road bike on Craigslist, LOL
On 10/1/2019 6:25 AM, AMuzi wrote:
On 10/1/2019 7:00 AM, sms wrote: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/d/concord-firenze-gl5000-italian-vintage/6990187709.html These bicycles were given away by an electronics store back in the 1980's if you bought a TV or stereo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ke1tc4pWGA. I know that guy (the creator of 'Buy a TV, Get a Bike!'). He says the lines at my bike shop in April gave him the idea. LOL. Did you have a special of "Buy a Bike, get a TV?" The story of the free bikes, which appears to be true, is that an importer had a load of them and they didn't meet U.S. standards so they could not be sold, but they could be given away. https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vintage-bicycles-whats-worth-appraisals/73680-what-firenze-gl5000-15-speed-bike-worth.html In 1992, the store owner, Steven Matthew David, stated “Over the years, we’ve moved 150,000 bikes. Three percent of the people in the Bay Area are riding around on bikes they bought from us.” Indeed, these bikes were seen everywhere around the Bay Area back in the day. The store owner, Steven Matthew David, later got in trouble for reselling Apple computers that he got from the Archdiocese of San Francisco http://www.sfweekly.com/news/yesterdays-crimes-the-tv-huckster-who-defrauded-apple/. |
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Firenze Italian road bike on Craigslist, LOL
On Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 5:00:57 AM UTC-7, sms wrote:
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/d/concord-firenze-gl5000-italian-vintage/6990187709.html These bicycles were given away by an electronics store back in the 1980's if you bought a TV or stereo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ke1tc4pWGA. It has a touring type of geometry and was made from heavy wall tubing. It was OK for a city bike in a flat area but I sure as hell wouldn't ride it in hills. |
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