I have to stop bidding on bikes.

[DCLane]

one of these?
https://classiclightweights.net/uni...ogues-etc/1990-raleigh-lightweight-catalogue/

Sort of, but in all metallic red. I'll post a photo plus frame details when it arrives over the weekend.

 

[Murray Missile]

I think the arse has fallen out of the vintage bike market.

The bike market in general has absolutely tanked here in the US. It went nuts during COVID and then the bubble burst. I'm trying to shift the focus of my bike inventory. I've had to give away bikes that would have brought decent money 3 or 4 years ago to make room for better bikes. It is defintely a buyers market right now and that's a bad thing for me in a couple ways LOL. This one at least went to a family member.....

 

[biggs682]

A bike I have been watching for a long while has gradually come down to £10 this morning, trouble is it's 2 hours away so still not really worth the effort involved especially as it's not en route to anywhere nice or somewhere we go ......

 

[Punkawallah]

I think the arse has fallen out of the vintage bike market.

People who appreciate such are dying?

 

[DCLane]

Another example of how low prices have gone; a 2011 Genesis Aether 30 with full 10 speed Shimano 105 sold for £62 just because I stuck a £60 bid in: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166739726561

I didn't go higher as it would have been a bit of a trek across Bradford to collect.

 

[Gwylan]

Now, the facts of life for all you big boys.

Bidding is just that. The problem is winning.

Once you have that under control life gets simpler and there will be space in the shed

 

[Punkawallah]

Now, the facts of life for all you big boys.

Bidding is just that. The problem is winning.

Once you have that under control life gets simpler and there will be space in the shed

‘Space in the shed’. What is this mythical substance of which you speak?

 

[Jameshow]

Another example of how low prices have gone; a 2011 Genesis Aether 30 with full 10 speed Shimano 105 sold for £62 just because I stuck a £60 bid in: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166739726561

I didn't go higher as it would have been a bit of a trek across Bradford to collect.

You should have said, I could have picked it up for you!

 

[Gwylan]

‘Space in the shed’. What is this mythical substance of which you speak?

It's a concept necessary to allow for the entropy of bicycles in the bicycle phage or domain.
This domain includes not only sheds but lofts, bicycle parking spots, supermarket carparks, railway stations and so on.
The significance of urban waste ground, rivers and waterways has been underestimated for sone time.

 

[AndyRM]

Here is your next one to bid on. A vintage stand up bike.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126149566561

"Everything mostly works"... Brilliant!

 

[Gwylan]

"Everything mostly works"... Brilliant!

Should this be in the piles thread.
Radical, invasive and untested cure?

 

[AndyRM]

Should this be in the piles thread.
Radical, invasive and untested cure?

 

[Punkawallah]

It's a concept necessary to allow for the entropy of bicycles in the bicycle phage or domain.
This domain includes not only sheds but lofts, bicycle parking spots, supermarket carparks, railway stations and so on.
The significance of urban waste ground, rivers and waterways has been underestimated for sone time.

And of course all of this will become clear with the Immanetisation of the Eschaton?
(Thank you RA Wilson)