Gold Colnago

[trailwright]

I wonder how much weight has been added using gold leaf?

 

[Betsy]

 

[sjcprojects]

All the photos and even most of the description are directly lifted from this:

https://steel-vintage.com/products/colnago-nuovo-mexico-oro-24k-gold-220319-01-07

which sold for just under 13K Euros. So as I thought, there is something fishy about this listing. I've reported it to eBay, for what good that might do.

 

[bikeworkshop]

I wonder how much weight has been added using gold leaf?

It's plate rather than leaf -

cheap (recent?) flash plating could be as low as 1 micron.
The surface area of a bicycle?
Let's throw in a square metre.
I suspect this is correct
to one significant figure

We've only got that accuracy on the plate thickness anyway folks, without buying the bike and drilling into the finish

So in square metres it's 1x1x0.000001m³=0.000001m³

gold is 20t/m³
=20,000kg
=20,000,000g
So weight of gold with these assumptions is
20,000,000x0.000001g
=20g
At £60 a gram, that's £1000 of gold.
(Note I'm sticking to one significant figure here)
So chrome plating might just be cheaper...just.

Of course it might be hard to prove the quality of the plate material, or remove it for resale.

 

[bikeworkshop]

All the photos and even most of the description are directly lifted from this:

https://steel-vintage.com/products/colnago-nuovo-mexico-oro-24k-gold-220319-01-07

which sold for just under 13K Euros. So as I thought, there is something fishy about this listing. I've reported it to eBay, for what good that might do.

Where's the bit that asks you to transfer five hundred quid in bitcoin to his bahama-based wallet to reserve it for you?
Maybe if you watch it, you'll get the invite?

 

[Jd345]

Eagerly watching to see if there's money to be made doing this: if there is then next Christmas I'm going to collect all the quality street wrappers and pritt-stick them on to an old frame I've got lying around

 

[bikeworkshop]

 

[Betsy]

So chrome plating might just be cheaper...just.

It might be the cost of the process rather than the cost of the raw materials..

When i was a young apprentice.. there was a plating business a couple of doors door, 75% of his trade was gold plating bathroom and kitchen taps / handles (this was the late 80s) for golfers and such.. a bloke who went in the local boozer asked if i could ask him to gold plate his massive silver bracelet.. as i say, late 80s.. i asked and the guy said "yes no problem" wow much will it be said i? well it depends how much gold you want putting on there?

Guy in the pub gave me his bracelet and £80.. i took it to work but the guy in the plating joint said 80 was way too much gold for that bracelet, he puts less than a 5'ers worth on the taps.. anywho, it cost £30, most of that cost was the cleaning, it looked incredible, guy was really happy with it..

One of my friends asked me if i could get him some mudguards re-chromed (the 're' part might be a clue here) i took those down and he said they would be £220 because he said there was a lot more prep involved in chrome plating than there was in gold plating.. this could be purely anecdotal, it could have just meant 'those' mudguards needed a lot of prep.. i dunno..

 

[LondonClassic]

then



£8350 saved and nobody will be able to tell the difference.

 

[Tommylurve]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/36526235...nFRn8mdnTnf4hXySlxiGGnVg==|tkp:Bk9SR6bF-oWIZQ

I see you and I raise you. Two a penny.