Hey! How much do you want for your bike?
07-18-08, 06:49 AM
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Hey! How much do you want for your bike?
That's the question i get ask once in a while. While riding my piccolo d3 here in the bronx. I've had someone in a taxi cab, a few people walking, someone from my neighborhood ask me the samething. Hey! How much do you want for your bike?
I should wear a sign saying "NOT FOR SALE!"
Have you been asked this question for your bike?
I should wear a sign saying "NOT FOR SALE!"
Have you been asked this question for your bike?
07-18-08, 09:14 AM
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i've been asked how much my bike costs, but no offers to buy it.
07-18-08, 12:45 PM
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i was just completing a ride with my bikeE ct (recumbent) and had someone driving by stop and ask if i wanted to sell. i thought this was pretty cool, offering to buy my 'bent with the fairing and all!
ended up they were questioning if i wanted to sell my honda cx car in the same area.
both were/are not for sale!
ended up they were questioning if i wanted to sell my honda cx car in the same area.
both were/are not for sale!
07-18-08, 01:09 PM
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I got asked twice if I was selling the rims on my car but never the bike. Nobody even takes a second look at my clunker. Haahah.
07-18-08, 01:17 PM
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Nope.
People don't want too nice a bike in the city. They want something worry free, and farty looking.
I like my bike, which is why I keep it in my apartment when I'm not riding it.
I've been asked how much I want for my car, which is the biggest clunker on the road, but it's great on gas and has a few dents which gives it character.
People don't want too nice a bike in the city. They want something worry free, and farty looking.
I like my bike, which is why I keep it in my apartment when I'm not riding it.
I've been asked how much I want for my car, which is the biggest clunker on the road, but it's great on gas and has a few dents which gives it character.
07-18-08, 02:06 PM
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Everyone's got their price. So how much you want?
07-19-08, 01:13 AM
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I was walking my bike home from getting a flat in East New York and some guy offered me $100 for my bike.
07-21-08, 05:47 AM
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Yes, there has been offer's but when i tell them how much i want for it.. they said it's more then my car!
Yikes
Yikes
07-28-08, 01:55 PM
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Yeah, one time when my NJTransit train conked out... we sat on the tracks for close to an hour, then they somehow lugged it back into the last station, Jersey Ave, and everyone got off. Most of them stood on the platform: plan was, they'd lug away the broken train and bring in a new one, which would get the good people to destination some time before they had to get up and do it all over again. As I unfolded my Kent Ultralight folding bike (which is a highly crappy little bike, by the way; cost like $89 shipping included) and prepared to ride into the sunset, some guy in a suit offered me, I think, $500 for it. Not sure, but I think he said $500. I didn't think he could be serious, but I probably should have called his bluff.
