Steve Whitlatch 

There is a beautiful tall Fuji Elite at The Salvation Army Store by Grand and Halsted. The paint & decals look great. It is Maroon. Has Suntour shifters and V-GT RD and a Fuji FD. It is listed at $300 but they will take $200. Sorry I have no pictures. I was working. It is to tall for me or I may have bought it myself. Looks original.

cb400bill

I've not heard of a Fuji model called Elite. Was it an Espree?

Steve Whitlatch 

Not sure. I thought it said Elite on the top tube. Looked old. If it is still there Monday I will take pictures. Is there a FUJI catalog site anywhere I can look at?

Cougrrcj

www.classicfuji.com

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Steve Whitlatch 

I did take a picture through the dirty window with my phone but it was real bad. After looking at the catalog and what I see in the picture of the down tube, the bike is a 1982 Supreme. I do not know much about JUJI but the bike looked like it has been stored for the last 25 years. Not the best bike in the FUJI lineup I see now. I could swear the top tube said FUJI Elite but maybe it was VALit though? My eyes are not what they used to be. Not a bad looking bike.

DVC45

Valite maybe?

zazenzach

i have owned several fujis and never heard of an elite either. if it was a Fuji Supreme, that bike is way overpriced. the Supreme was a lower end model and in '82 it was made of single butted Valite tubing with high ten fork and chainstays.

Savagewolf

The days (of which I never got to experience) of a nice bike for a great deal in a thrift shop / Goodwill / Salvation Army seem to be drying up quite quickly. Every bike, even the junk ones, seem to be overpriced.

oddjob2

Supreme is low end, but I did sell a super clean one I reconditioned for $225 in September.

Bikedued

They seemed to even stop showing up here. One by one the stores started getting only junk bikes. I imagine some inventive flippers, with nothing better to do, are scooping them up at the main distribution centers for each chain. It was like one week there were two to three bikes....then nothing. Have not found a single bike in 4 years at my one store, which is part of a large thrift store chain. I've checked their other locations, and nothing there either.,,,,BD

wrk101

Last nice bike I saw at a thrift shop, the manager wheeled it out directly to the cash register, paid for it, and put it in her car.

I did find four bikes in one visit last year, nothing spectacular, but at less than $50 for all four, I couldn't complain.

Steve Whitlatch 

That is the bike in the window but yours is a bit smaller. $200 in Chicago is a bit high but fair. It would be a good city bike. The prices they are asking for bikes around here on Craigslist is unbelievable.

Bikedued

You guys are lucky. That would be a struggle to get over $100 for here, on a good day. Here, stem shifters and turkey wings = junk, in the average public's eye.,,,,BD

repechage

They got smart. But not too smart, now they are greedy and the bikes just hang on a hook at the local Salvation Army Store. I don't even look anymore with wallyworld level bikes that look thrashed priced at $125. Everything is about that price unless a wheel is bent, then they are $75.

oddjob2

I paid $70 for it. Sold it to a visiting scholar from France. If you're in NO, why is some noob on C+V appraisal complaining about not finding a bike at $150?

wahoonc

We have not had anything decent show up in the past several years. In this area I attribute it to a couple of things. One is the overwhelming number of BSO's being sold by the big box stores. I am not kidding when I say there are literally more WM's around here than anything else. There are 6 Walmart Super Centers within a 30 mile radius of my house, not to mention the likes of Dicks, Target and such. There are exactly 2 LBSes in that same radius. The other thing is this area is relatively low wealth and there never has really been a strong pool of higher end bikes to chose from.

Aaron

oddjob2

^ "Low wealth" would be an oxymoron, just like jumbo shrimp. Then there's Michigan Ave, west of Turnbull, where the old Tigers Stadium was; every national dollar store chain + a few enterprising middle easterners in a six block strip. That would be "no wealth."

crank_addict

Chitown shopping-

Bargains can be had from G.will. Paid $10 for an original and accessorized Raleigh Twenty. Was only scuzzy and all I replaced were the original tires and pads.

Fuji talk. Wish I could find another S-12S Ltd. Terrific bike. I had one purchased new years ago ('79 or '80?) and toured the east coast. Found a few on CL Chicago last year - (choice unmolested condition), priced in the low $200 range but just too large of frame. Really really wanted so badly.

Bikedued

Not sure what you're talking about?,,,,BD

oddjob2

This:

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...50-a-good-deal

Bikedued

Who is in NO, besides that other poster on the thread you linked? I am in Houston.,,,BD

oddjob2

My mistake, for some reason I thought you were in N.O.

Bikedued

No problem. I could sell them a bike for $150, but I have come to one sad realization. The people that are looking for a $150 bike, are actually looking for something made in the last 5-6 years, that originally cost over $1000. The exact polar opposite of the people selling Continentals, Varsity's and World Sports for 3-4 times the price in question.,,,,BD

Sedgemop 

Sellers sure do ask high prices on CL. I don't think people are buying, for the most part, though. I see the same overpriced bikes for months, and sometimes years.

Steve Whitlatch 

Might be for the hard core known flippers? I sold 3 bikes last month. One was a Motobecane Mixtie for $200. The others where a woman`s Sprint for $80 and a woman`s Raleigh Record for $90. They sold pretty fast for winter.