New Tourer

[MarkF]

Been looking and auction bidding a while but my pockets are empty

Just collected a Dawes Horizon I won last week for £100, it looked a bit scruffy in the pics but it is a 531 framed 2001 minter. The scruffy guards will be junked, black ones fitted along with new marathon plus's. For once in my life it looks like I have bought a bargain.

 

[Andy in Sig]

You probably ought to do before and after pics then.

 

[jay clock]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dawes-Horizon...rms=66:2|65:13|39:1|240:1318#ebayphotohosting looks like it. Agreed - seems a bargain

 

[MarkF]

I've already cleaned it, there will have to be just an after pic

Yes, that was the one, I forgot about the bid, I am so used to not winning. Cost me nowt to collect either as I had to go to Leicester this morning and the bike was only 20 mins away from there. Everything is fine apart from a little corrosion on the front rim, I'll look closer tomorrow, mismatched (already junked) guards and part perished tyres. Bargain!

 

[Tony]

I think the saddle may need a change, lol

 

[Andy in Sig]

It looks decent enough. I wonder why somebody would go to the trouble of buying a bike like that, only to flog it off.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Very nice!

 

[GrahamG]

Very nice indeed, just goes to show that there are still some bargains to be had on Ebay, as long as they're collection only and not in the south-east

 

[MarkF]

Very nice indeed, just goes to show that there are still some bargains to be had on Ebay, as long as they're collection only and not in the south-east

That's always the way The £100 was my top bid, I was amazed to learn that I had won it.

 

[just jim]

I had a little Jack Russell terrier that used to sit up like that Brooks.

 

[simoncc]

It looks decent enough. I wonder why somebody would go to the trouble of buying a bike like that, only to flog it off.

When I bought a mint 1997 Dawes Horizon for £75 from a bike shop in 2005 the shop owner told me that tourers are deeply unfashionable and that many casual cyclists trade them in for more trendy modern looking machines less suited to everyday use.

 

[asterix]

It looks decent enough. I wonder why somebody would go to the trouble of buying a bike like that, only to flog it off.

They found they had to pedal it? (sorry)

 

[MarkF]

They found they had to pedal it? (sorry)

Nope, Simon got it right. The guy was probably mid-40's like myself and had bought a sexy MTB for commuting

 

[GrahamG]

Nope, Simon got it right. The guy was probably mid-40's like myself and had bought a sexy MTB for commuting

His loss, your gain!

It's a very good point about tourers, I'd wait for a similar second-hand bargain if I weren't going to just hitch a trailer to the road bike.

 

[simoncc]

Nope, Simon got it right. The guy was probably mid-40's like myself and had bought a sexy MTB for commuting

I buy up any old tourers in good condition I can now if they are cheap enough. I just strip them for parts just as I did with the 1997 Horizon which had a frame which was too small for me.