Ever wonder what the stuff you collect now cost back in the day? It's not too terribly difficult to find vendor catalog scans with a Google search, but finding catalogs from bike stores is a little harder.
Fortunately for us, Harry is a pack rat like no other, and gave me a 16 year old Colorado Cyclist catalog. Here are a couple of scans - 2 pages of Merckx bikes, and their Campagnolo Record, Suntour Superbe Pro, Shimano Dura Ace and Mavic component pages. I think its safe to say that the lamentation of "if I knew then what I know now, I would have bought 100 Mavic headsets" is bunk; very few of the items sell now for as much as they sold for then.
![](http://www.cadre.org/bike_stuff/colorado_cyclist/fall_1993/61.jpg)
Campagnolo Record, Chorus, Athena, Veloce and Mavic
![](http://www.cadre.org/bike_stuff/colorado_cyclist/fall_1993/62.jpg)
Shimano Dura Ace, Ultegra, 105 and Suntour Superbe
![](http://www.cadre.org/bike_stuff/colorado_cyclist/fall_1993/68.jpg)
Merckx MX Leader and Century
![](http://www.cadre.org/bike_stuff/colorado_cyclist/fall_1993/69.jpg)
Corsa Extra and Corsa
4 comments:
Huh, $44.99 originally for a stell 8sp cassette. You can still get new 8sp Campy cassettes from Airbomb.com however the prices has gone from $49.95 a year ago to now $82.50 :(
1993 was about the last year of the 73.5 seat tube angle on the 58cm Corsa Extra. 72.5 soon became the norm :(
Very interesting indeed. It appears that, since then, the groupset prices but above all the high-end frame prices have sky rocketed.
One more reason to be a retro grouch.
Am I reading this right- over $400.00 for the ST-7400? Damn, expensive!
Thanks for the info
After 1993 Corsa Extra was still available in both versions: "road racing" and "century".
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