The "How much?" or "You're havin' a giraffe!" thread

[Tenacious Sloth]

Have a look at the completed listings for Brooks saddles.

How do you do that?

 

[Paulus]

Have a look at the completed listings for Brooks saddles.

In the box on the advert, there is a price tag sticker for £214.99. Given that the seller is also selling some leather bar tape going for £60 from Brooks, a £400+ mark up, even for a collectable is way over the top. Brooks' top of the range saddle the C 13 158mm carved is £175,

 

[BalkanExpress]

How do you do that?

When you do a search on eBay, as you go down the filters on the left hand side of the screen, there is one heading “buying formats” (the heading after “Price” ) that starts with “all listings” this includes completed listings, click on it and ot will give all, err completed listings. Green is the price something sold for, struck through green means an offer was accepted below the BIN, black means unsold.

 

[carpenter]

glad that was asked

 

[Hover Fly]

I once listed a GB ‘bars and stem set, the T girder type stem, starting at the minimum allowed then, more thinking it would be useful to someone than that I wanted the money. 650 quid later they were on a plane to Singapore. So something is worth what someone will pay for it.

 

[DCLane]

This is lovely, but I can't see it being worth £6000 - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cinelli-Super-Speciale-Corsa-Pista-1970-/324191145997

 

[Kempstonian]

Pretty but an eye watering price! Personally I would have looked into having the fork drilled, rather than fitting that ugly front brake clamp.

 

[carpenter]

Also, is something gong on around the head tube? hole/dodgy paint?

 

[midlife]

You mean around the fork crown race (which looks odd) and the area around the lower head tube lug..which looks dodgy.....

 

[DCLane]

Pretty but an eye watering price! Personally I would have looked into having the fork drilled, rather than fitting that ugly front brake clamp.

The difficulty is if it's drilled track use may be prohibited at some tracks.

 

[Kempstonian]

The difficulty is if it's drilled track may be prohibited at some tracks.

Ah yes, I hadn't thought of that.

I agree about the head tube. Something going on there for sure. I don't know what though.

 

[BalkanExpress]

Ohh-la-la I would ordinarily give an call to @woodbutcher but not when the pricing is this...err...optimistic

https://www.leboncoin.fr/velos/1784821251.htm/

 

[Paulus]

Ohh-la-la I would ordinarily give an call to @woodbutcher but not when the pricing is this...err...optimistic

https://www.leboncoin.fr/velos/1784821251.htm/

Very optimistic indeed. A cracking looking bike though.

 

[Chris S]

£400 for a bike cobbled together using an old Raleigh frame. It doesn't even have a front brake or gears anymore.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/17430194...Vleig7s1PXJ6CPg6DhbyeJ2ZHPq1zGrT3c8KdBa7OlA94

 

[Kempstonian]

"somewhat botched paintwork on the headtube area " - Putting it mildly!
"Some cosmetic cracks on the tyre sidewalls" - They look to me like he's painted some old perished tyres to make them look newer.