Fifty Plus (50+) - Unbelieveable Bike on Craigs list

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/878479525.html Gotta see this to believe it. Wish it was my size

I tried to fix the link thanks to Denver for reposting.

What was it? the link is no good

Oh my-I just hope it was a garage ceiling and someone wasn't riding it!!

Yikes!! Lp

My loss is your gain....

I think he got the wording switched around.

That's a bummer. Think he'll get his asking price? :roflmao2:

DUH. What are some people thinking with their ads?

DUH. What are some people thinking with their ads?

We had some not so bright locals try a little different twist on Craigs List the other day.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=6444715 :roflmao2::roflmao2::roflmao2:

Fixer-Upper with lots of potential.

Ahhhh....Seattle Craigslist. My favorite LBS.

Guess it's not what it's cracked up to be . . .
Too many zeroes?!

Actually that's kindof funny. Good example why not to buy CF. Geez I wonder how it got busted???? :(

I think he just got the decimal point in the wrong place. I would consider giving him $120.00 for it.

That bike lived up to the company's old reputation - "crack & fail"

good example of money doesn't = smarts

funny listing though...then got boring quick

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/878479525.html Gotta see this to believe it. Wish it was my size

I tried to fix the link thanks to Denver for reposting.

:rolleyes:

That bike's the bomb!

(edit.) Oh, I mean that bike was bombed.

Craigslist can be quite entertaining. Here is the text from an ad in Pittsburgh. Not only do you get to buy a bike but you can "hook up" with the product of Ted Kennedy's No Child Left Behind education:

ok i will be moving in two weeks so for someone out there they shall get hooked up, i cannot bring this bike (k2 mountain bike shocks all around road less than a month paid 6 plus but willing to take a loss, you name a price it is yours i can meet you in the city,

also i have a ban new easton wheel set i paid around 340 for again i cannot take them with me name a price, i am willing to make a deal. these wheels never road on.

I think he just got the decimal point in the wrong place. I would consider giving him $120.00 for it.

I think you also got the decimal point in the wrong place, $12.00 would be a fair price.
That hurts just to look at.

I do love Seattle Craigslist.

Just did my morning check, and found this - seller claims it was ridden in the Tour de France by a "professional" bike racer:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/881170358.html

I think the bike shown in the original ad is a classic example of why a wombat of my girth should not purchase one of the modern bicycles constructed in the now popular, hydrocarbon based, plastic composites. Clearly, if one of my ferrous based steeds been constructed of such an inferior material, it might not aquire a configuration shown in that advertisment without considerable coercion.

Note: I'm used to seeing carbon fibre bikes carry a warning that the max weight is 85kg, whereas this wombat weighs in at 105kg. Yes, I'm overweight but not stupidly so and I recognise that the idiots placing these ratings on bikes are the same idiots placing stickers on mountain bikes that say "not for off-road use".

Stuffit: If you're silly enough to forsake steel for tupperware, you deserve everything coming to you ... which, of course, includes reduced weight, theoretically increased stiffness, added bling as well as the more commonly acknowledged 'wank factor', inability to carry a load, fragility (despite strength) and all the rest of the carry on that makes arguing about frames so darned exhilerating, not to mention pointless.

That ad would have more credibility if it had a photo of the SUV that converted that once fine bicycle into the collection of hydrocarbon waste it is today. BUT, of course, I ask to much. It is, after all, well after midnight as I post this note and the bottle of red vino is too close to being empty for my observations to carry any credible weight, not to mention the sadly uncompleted state of the university assignment due up tomorrow morning :eek:

Richard

"Flip this bike"

I do love Seattle Craigslist.

Just did my morning check, and found this - seller claims it was ridden in the Tour de France by a "professional" bike racer:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/881170358.html

The tires might need some air. :roflmao2::roflmao2::roflmao2:

Man, its really discouraging to me to see the blatant lies being told to sell things. Please tell me we are not totally decayed as a society.

Man, its really discouraging to me to see the blatant lies being told to sell things. Please tell me we are not totally decayed as a society.

Do you follow politics............:roflmao2:

We had some not so bright locals try a little different twist on Craigs List the other day.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=6444715 :roflmao2::roflmao2::roflmao2:

Just shows to go ya, crime is for people who are too dumb to hold down a regular job. :rolleyes:

SP

If it's Friday night, it's time for bike thieves to be holding mass sales of bikes at Seattle campuses...

http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/bik/883307441.html

Then there is this warning posted a few minutes later: "Warning, these guys are meth heads."

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/883380912.html


The kooky thing is that next to these wacky sellers one also sees beauties like this:
http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/bik/882781893.html

Actually that's kindof funny. Good example why not to buy CF. Geez I wonder how it got busted???? :(

Oh, I don't know, a little super glue, some duct tape, a little slime in the tires, I'll bet someone could get that little C'Dale puppy up and running again.


Or not!

OK, this one had to be saved.

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/1189/customcannondaleroadbikkz2.th.png (http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=customcannondaleroadbikkz2.png)http://img389.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

I assumed the entire point of the original ad was humor, not a misplaced decimal point.

Did you ever think that maybe some of these craigslist items are fronts for laundering drug money? I do.

Do you ever think that maybe some of these craigslist items are fronts for jokesters?

Maybe the guy had a digital photo of his totaled bike (used for an insurance claim after an accident) and decided to have some fun with it. Maybe he's even a BF member, reading this thread right now and laughing his backside off.

I perfer to think nit is a joke, but to my taste it would be an odd joke. I am afraid I starting to get like Basel Fawlty fronm the old BBC Fawlty Towers show.