Classic & Vintage - The Wacky World of Craigslist and eBay Ads

Pinarello (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170473238776#ht_1152wt_1165)

ALL CAPS, this baby is hot with a racing pedigree. Guaranteed to slay every other knockoff being ridden by a senior citizen on a town festival fun ride. The buyers question about the reserve price at the far bottom and the buyers payment schedule. Lots going on here including a single digit bid currently.

BILLY MAYS HERE WITH PINARELLO!
-Gene-

i don't know how to spell but this takes the cake. dude the correct spelling is on the screen!

http://kansascity.craigslist.org/bik/1705495413.html

nice camper for sale – $700 (http://www.yousuckatcraigslist.com/?p=4394)



got nice rv camper.. work nice just need fixing.. i need money child support… will take 500 dollars .. call cellapone. name chad. tittle in hand ready for camping in woods.. thank you. call text anytime i stay up all day n night ; number #### ### ###

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[URL="http://www.yousuckatcraigslist.com/?p=4394"]nice camper for sale – $700[/URL

Thank you, Tom, for introducing me to that wonderful website. You made my night.
-Gene-

We should give that website a link to this Wacky thread.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/bik/1705114402.html
Spam anyone? Not classic or vintage, but definitely goofy.

Huh? :bike2:

Fully Restored Vintage ROSS Women's 10-Speed - Daisys & White Walls - $250 (North Buffalo)

Date: 2010-04-22, 3:51PM EDT
Reply to: sale-amgmt-1705086450@craigslist.org (sale-amgmt-1705086450@craigslist.org?subject=Fully%20Restored%20Vintage%20ROSS%20Women's%2010-Speed%20-%20Daisys%20%26amp%3B%20White%20Walls%20-%20%24250%20(North%20Buffalo)&body=%0A%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fbuffalo.craigslist.org%2Fbik%2F1705086450.html%0A) [Errors when replying to ads? (http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/replying_to_posts)]



Asking $250 to recoup my investment on parts. This bike is ready to ride out of my driveway, requiring no adjustments and no parts.

Please e-email (using the craigslist email link). I'm a web designer and respond very quickly to email. I'll take prospective buyers according to the order I get requests for the bike.

This is a fully restored vintage Ross Women's 10-Speed that I restored in Fall 2009 and finished with a chain and new rear derailleur this spring of 2010. The bike was found on my street on garbage day and I had always wanted to try and restore a vintage 10-speed so I did!
The bike was completely stripped of rust and gutted so that new paint and all new components could be added. This bike (besides the frame, crank, shift levers, and brake handles) is completely new.

The following components were purchased new and added to the bike (please visit the facebook album linked below to see all the parts I fixed and replaced):

* Giant brake cable housing
* Giant brake cables
* Giant shift cable housing
* Giant shift cables
* Replaced rear derailleur (used excellent condition, installed at Shickluna Bike Shop)
* New chain
* New rim tape
* Giant tire tubes
* New white wall tires
* Bontrager padded grip tape
* Replaced seat
* 2 layers of primer paint / 3 layers of color paint
* Custom vinyl daisy decals

Here is a link to more photo angles: http://www.luminusmedia.com/restoredbike/

Here is a link to the before photos and phases of the restore: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2282663&id=15707510&l=2a994d140d

Thanks for looking at my post.

Tim


Location: North Buffalo
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Uh...

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/bik/1702521940.html


Chinex His/Her Tandem "Sixty#PSAKRAP" (mesa'sfamous'chinatown')

Date: 2010-04-21, 2:30AM MST
Reply to: sale-jjec4-1702521940@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]

Bicycle built for two...
(or more....seriously..need rot a stlong guy lift to vehicle-conveyance.)

Built in Chiung-Chong District, one of China's strictest regions, where is much curfew and labor to build best-strong bike
of heavy iron durableness.

Two wheels, with patent never flat-technology in them...solid iron.

Man seat is in front, where gears lowered to sedate effort.

Ten average walk-in pace later, as you travel rearward on bike is wife seat, with most effort
pedal intact to motiv unit.

Brinder keep her from look forward, so hubby can ogle ass all day wrong, best happy, eh?

Rear grapples keep her from falling off backward, even if swoon from efforts labor to pedal-drive both spouse ahead.


List for 250 us dollars.

You can take for 179.99, and warrantees hold wife of even 400+pounds avoirdupois wgt. US standard scale of measure fat weight.

thank you most times for reading this messaghe.

thank you.

I am humble, and you buy bicycle for healyth reason prease.


email chiung-schong province, day operator/IT special corps III2.chingao

Location: mesa'sfamous'chinatown'
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That has got, to be a joke. Please say it's a joke?:twitchy:,,,,BD

"Vintage triathlon bike - $450 (http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/bik/1703833633.html)" - look closely, it's a Murry/Huffy/FreeSpirit frame with tri bars and Campy brake calipers...

I got $260 for a powdercoated Huffy with a 3 pc conversion? I only wish I hadn't left the Cyclone derailleur on it. I didn't know any better at the time. I found out how nice they were a week or so later, but the buyer didn't want me to have a complete set after the fact.:lol:,,,,BD

http://miami.craigslist.org/pbc/bik/1707780066.html


1984/85 SCHWINN World Tourist Deluxe-NEVER USED! - $225 (Stuart, FL)
Date: 2010-04-24, 10:37AM EDT
Reply to: sale-vjqv4-1707780066@craigslist.org

This bike has NEVER BEEN RIDDEN!

Purchased for my wife for Christmas 1984 or 1985. It has been hanging in our garage in NY for YEARS and in FLA for 8 years. NEVER BEEN IN BAD WEATHER.

Bike has some surface rust, looks like it will clean up beautifully.

PURCHASE PRICE OF THIS BIKE WAS $450.00 in the mid 80's!

I can't remember how many speeds it has, and I PROBABLY still have the original paperwork that goes with it. I'd have to look if you are
interested in that kind of stuff.

The bike I THINK was a 20? SPEED? Has two speed controllers, one on each side of the handle bars.

Contact me if you would like some better pictures.

Make me an offer, time to move this to someone who can use it.

http://images.craigslist.org/3n53ka3oa5O55Z15T2a4o072c5741cb3111b7.jpg

http://images.craigslist.org/3kf3m03pb5Y35X15S5a4o8350bd2834391896.jpg


Positron. 20 speed. Knows exactly how much it cost him 20 years ago, doesn't know where the paperwork is.

:rolleyes:

-Kurt

here you go!

http://kansascity.craigslist.org/ele/1681255716.html

here you go!

http://kansascity.craigslist.org/ele/1681255716.html

WHY!?!?!?!?!?!?!
-Gene-

here you go!

http://kansascity.craigslist.org/ele/1681255716.html

I Hate yoU!

Hey, I think the surgeon did an admirable job!

I got greasy just looking at the photo.

I'm looking for the abandoned mine shaft.

http://miami.craigslist.org/pbc/bik/1707780066.html



Positron. 20 speed. Knows exactly how much it cost him 20 years ago, doesn't know where the paperwork is.

:rolleyes:

-Kurt

Not to worry, he's likely also lost as to where his hair, Camaro, hot girlfriend and half of his life went (he knew he had them somewhere)...darn. Always save the box or something.

(I doubt it's gonna cool down Sino-American political problems)...


Uh...

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/bik/1702521940.html


Chinex His/Her Tandem "Sixty#PSAKRAP" (mesa'sfamous'chinatown')

Date: 2010-04-21, 2:30AM MST
Reply to: sale-jjec4-1702521940@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]

Bicycle built for two...
(or more....seriously..need rot a stlong guy lift to vehicle-conveyance.)

Built in Chiung-Chong District, one of China's strictest regions, where is much curfew and labor to build best-strong bike
of heavy iron durableness.

Two wheels, with patent never flat-technology in them...solid iron.

Man seat is in front, where gears lowered to sedate effort.

Ten average walk-in pace later, as you travel rearward on bike is wife seat, with most effort
pedal intact to motiv unit.

Brinder keep her from look forward, so hubby can ogle ass all day wrong, best happy, eh?

Rear grapples keep her from falling off backward, even if swoon from efforts labor to pedal-drive both spouse ahead.


List for 250 us dollars.

You can take for 179.99, and warrantees hold wife of even 400+pounds avoirdupois wgt. US standard scale of measure fat weight.

thank you most times for reading this messaghe.

thank you.

I am humble, and you buy bicycle for healyth reason prease.


email chiung-schong province, day operator/IT special corps III2.chingao

Location: mesa'sfamous'chinatown'
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For the CV forum member that has everything

http://cgi.ebay.com/SCHWINN-PHANTOM-BAR-STOOL-LIMITED-EDITION-NEW-OLD-STOCK-/120542248719?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c10e0bf0f#ht_500wt_1182

A 1980 Raleigh Sports for...excuse me? ...how much...???? :http://cgi.ebay.com/ORIGINAL1980S-VINTAGE-RALEIGH-3-SPEED-SPORT-BICYCLE-/110524289608?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Road_Bikes&hash=item19bbc2d248

Worse than that, it's Taiwan-made, when Taiwan-made bikes weren't all that good. This is nowhere nearly as good as the English-made bikes.

Thought you guys would enjoy that...

Worse than that, it's Taiwan-made, when Taiwan-made bikes weren't all that good. This is nowhere nearly as good as the English-made bikes.

Yup. Has the "Huffy-era" Raleigh graphics on the downtube.

Sucker has no idea he has a dud.

"just 29 less than the famous 531" : http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/bik/1711802894.html

This seller goes for the hard sell...

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/bik/1711750728.html

$163 and rising for two bells (http://cgi.ebay.com/SONN-ETT-2-BELLS-SONN-ETT-/160426071411?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255a239573)?

I had one of these, and yeah, it was nice, but come on!

UO-8 for $900 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110524981620&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNARL:US:1123). This is a relisting. I wonder why it didn't sell last time!

UO-8 for $900 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110524981620&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNARL:US:1123). This is a relisting. I wonder why it didn't sell last time!

But, the breaks move smoothly.

"A lot of rust" and they still want $65 for it?


Open Road by Positron---Hard To Find--- - $65 (Cary)

Date: 2010-04-28, 9:12PM EDT
Reply to: sale-ubrvx-1715412864@craigslist.org (sale-ubrvx-1715412864@craigslist.org?subject=Open%20Road%20by%20Positron---Hard%20To%20Find---%20-%20%2465%20%28Cary%29&body=%0A%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fraleigh.craigslist.org%2Fbik%2F1715412864.html%0A) [Errors when replying to ads? (http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/replying_to_posts)]

26" tires that hold air. Shimano-Positron derailer-needs adjusting. A lot of rust. 10 speed. Women's. Appears to be all original. Originally sold at Montgomery Ward's. Somewhat negotiable-Cash only.





Location: Cary
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-Gene-

"A lot of rust" and they still want $65 for it?

Coincidentally, $65 is the seller's copay for the tetanus shot...

148472http://battlecreek.craigslist.org/bik/1707109460.html (http://battlecreek.craigslist.org/bik/1707109460.html)

$350.00 for real? It'd be nice to know what it is. Big dollars must be for those handlebars

"just 29 less than the famous 531" : http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/bik/1711802894.html

Gotta admit that's creative and funny...

http://battlecreek.craigslist.org/bik/1707109460.html

$350.00 for real? It'd be nice to know what it is. Big dollars must be for those handlebars
Wow, they actually took the time to re-orient the brake levers on their DUI bars.

Wow, they actually took the time to re-orient the brake levers on their DUI bars.

"DUI bars" that is very funny :roflmao:


OH I just stumbled across this. we had a few of these Bertonis in 52 kicking around the shop and could not sell them new for $499. this guy never even bothered to clean it and wants $500

Bertoni Italian Racing Bike Columbus SL Shimano 600

http://cgi.ebay.com/Bertoni-Italian-Racing-Bike-Columbus-SL-Shimano-600-/140402826226?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Road_Bikes&hash=item20b0a91bf2

http://www.yourwoodcraftsman.com/ebayphotos/bert1

OMG this was just too funny not to post! paid $800 five yers ago? 26" frame, worth 1500-2000? wow not bad for a 20yo bike that sold new for $550 tops! LOL http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/bik/1715383823.html

This bike is in excell. cond. made in 1986/1987. about 11 miles riden in last 5 years. paid 800.00 for bike 5 years ago. need to sell. call today. serious only. if you dont want to buy DONT CALL. *26" frame. every gear works. It's a BIANCHI. IT SELLS ITSELF. If you know anything about bikes, all we have to do is exchange money., *I'm not willing to measure anything. *I'm not reading stickers, *I'm not intersested in any other work other than straight up SELLING this bike. If you want to buy a Bianchi, then lets make a deal. IF NOT MOVE ON!!!!! call 630-918-0093. *THIS BIKE IS WORTH 1500-2000 HANDS DOWN!!!!!

http://images.craigslist.org/3k23m23p35Q45R25S0a4sfb8cbe53c30b1e43.jpg

Bianchigirll, why didn't the Bertonis sell, were they all the same pink/red color? There was a similar one on our local CL for $250 and I thought it might fit my wife, but it looked a bit neglected so I passed...

Bianchigirll, why didn't the Bertonis sell, were they all the same pink/red color? There was a similar one on our local CL for $250 and I thought it might fit my wife, but it looked a bit neglected so I passed...

between size, we had a 52 and a 56(?) when I started working there and the pinksish color. thye were a great deal in '91-92. a SL bike with 600 for $500. I liked them but we just never seemed to find the right buyer.

"DUI bars"
that is very funny :roflmao:

The term DUI Bars has been officially added to my C&V lexicon, alongside "Drewed" and "Khatfull'd" (which are two very different terms, btw...).

I always knew there was a genius name for that kind of crap bar style, C&V has finally delivered!

Words can't adequately describe:

http://austin.craigslist.org/bik/1716192593.html

Rare Pair His & Hers 1960's Ranger ~ Rangerette Bicycles - $600 (Buda)

148526

The term DUI Bars has been officially added to my C&V lexicon, alongside "Drewed" and "Khatfull'd" (which are two very different terms, btw...).

I always knew there was a genius name for that kind of crap bar style, C&V has finally delivered!
I figured it was a common term here. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=DUI%20bars

Words can't adequately describe:

http://austin.craigslist.org/bik/1716192593.html

Rare Pair His & Hers 1960's Ranger ~ Rangerette Bicycles - $600 (Buda)

148526

Yeah, that's pretty lame.

I'm not familiar with the bike, but I can't believe someone would actually try and sell those sway-back banana seats as "original. They can't be.

$400 Huffy Classic - revamped with modern componets (http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/bik/1716545480.html)

$400 Huffy Classic - revamped with modern componets (http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/bik/1716545480.html)

Talk about polishing a turd :lol::lol:

OMG this was just too funny not to post! paid $800 five yers ago? 26" frame, worth 1500-2000? wow not bad for a 20yo bike that sold new for $550 tops! LOL http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/bik/1715383823.html

This bike is in excell. cond. made in 1986/1987. about 11 miles riden in last 5 years. paid 800.00 for bike 5 years ago. need to sell. call today. serious only. if you dont want to buy DONT CALL. *26" frame. every gear works. It's a BIANCHI. IT SELLS ITSELF. If you know anything about bikes, all we have to do is exchange money., *I'm not willing to measure anything. *I'm not reading stickers, *I'm not intersested in any other work other than straight up SELLING this bike. If you want to buy a Bianchi, then lets make a deal. IF NOT MOVE ON!!!!! call 630-918-0093. *THIS BIKE IS WORTH 1500-2000 HANDS DOWN!!!!!

So what size of frame is this? It looks like ~52cm or so? What would something like this actually be worth? Looking for a bike for my 15 yr old and this would be about the right size.

Talk about polishing a turd :lol::lol:
Pacific Heights is all about turd polishing.

$400 Huffy Classic - revamped with modern componets (http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/bik/1716545480.html)

New drop bars wrapped in fresh tape, attached with the super classic original stem.

I did not realize those old steel wald style stems were classics.

PS I like the way he said "I laid pure white paint" like he is the Chip Foose of bikes or something

So what size of frame is this? It looks like ~52cm or so? What would something like this actually be worth? Looking for a bike for my 15 yr old and this would be about the right size.


those in Chicago who know the market can tell you better but I would think $200 would be more reasonable for that bike, depending on the condition. a nice Ishwata DB frame a Shimano Sport LX. my catalog from when I worked in the Boston area then shows the retail was $498. the stem scares me though, it looks real high and if some dope was riding it like that it could have steerer problems.

The term DUI Bars has been officially added to my C&V lexicon, alongside "Drewed" and "Khatfull'd" (which are two very different terms, btw...).

I always knew there was a genius name for that kind of crap bar style, C&V has finally delivered!

OK from the contex in which it is used I gather 'Drewed' and 'Drewing' refer to making a fixed/SS out of road bike to include cutting bits of yes?

what does Khatfull'd mean?

Anyone else just facepalm super hard whenever you see one of those horrible Firenze GL5000's on CL for $200+? They were given away for free in the 80's because they were unsafe to sell.

like he is the Chip Foose of bikes or something

<OT interlude>
I appreciate the style Chip Foose does things in, he's an amazing artist, and has built some beautiful machines.
But because of this forum, I just don't LIKE that he does any of it. Sure, he's only doing what so many other people have done, but, sometime he just takes a car and turns into something it's not really supposed to be.
Don't get me started on Pimp My Ride though.
</OT interlude>
-Gene-