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Old 03-18-11, 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by CraigB
Congrats on what I'm sure was a satisfactory deal all around.
I hope so. It was for me. I truly hope the kid enjoys it - I told him "I hope it's going to a good home." I hated that friggin' bike with a passion - just not me - so I hope it goes somewhere where it gets the love it deserves. It was a really nice bike, and the 105 stuff was really nice - I wish the back derailleur on my hybrid was half as nice as the one on the road bike.

Originally Posted by The Historian
Congratulations. Your bikes should make you happy. Now go and ride your other bikes.
Can't do. Weather's nice here and I've got 2,000 other things to do with my time. Gotta be some kinda irony.

Originally Posted by motobecane69
1. Clean the bike SPOTLESS. It only has 400 miles on it, it's probably not very dirty, but make it look pristine. Even wash the tires down. Make it look like new if you want to get close to new prices.
That's funny - I got up hours before I was meeting the guy for him to look at it and just bathed it in Simple Green. Washed the tires and everything. And I'd just cleaned and lubed the chain about two weeks before that and I'm pretty sure I hadn't been back on the bike since.

And I got lucky this time selling on Craigslist (most likely - guy was from out of town) without pictures. I won't be doing that again - anything I try to sell on craigslist in the future will include pictures. Good tips on keeping an ad visible on craigslist.
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