f0s_man

Understandably, a LBS will probably get a fixed number of bike sizes, and attempt to sell them off before the end of the season to maximize profits. In the event the bikes do not sell, even after POSTseason sales, where do they go? Say now it's 2008, where do the 2006 or 2005 models go? Back to the manufacturer, who then melts the aluminum and recycles the bike to make the 2009 models? Goes on thiEfbay? Where?

Thanks for the input!

Retro Grouch 

It may take a year or so but, it's just like cars, every single one eventually gets sold.

Then a master computer somewhere notes that particular model bike, in the color puce, was sold and a production order is created to produce another.

relyt

I think they just sit around gathering dust, and the prices get lower and lower, until someone finally buys them.

I have seen some shops doing liquidation on eBay, but I think they were going out of business and selling everything they had.

I don't think that a distributor or manufacturer would ever buy a bike back.

Edonis13

i bought a 2006 model bike new from a LBS a few weeks ago.

Jynx

They sell faster then you would think. By me I wish I could find a brand new 06 or 07 to save money but either the shops are big and sell a lot or they are small and are on an order only basis.

Walter

They don't always sell. Still some NOS in the box Raleighs and Univegas popping up on eBay from time to time. Basically, they came in at the end of the 70-80s Bike Boom just as the market was switching to mountain bikes big time.

They are a (so far resistible) temptation for a guy like me who started in the 70s. Kind of like a time capsule.

I'd imagine that 20-30 years from now a NOS Trek or etc. will pop up here or there.

zacster

I bought a 2005 Specialized Dolce Vita for my daughter just this summer, so it was already probably 3 years old at that point. It was a good deal. It was brand new with the tags, and on eBay from a bike shop in Minnesota. I think that shop was a clearing house for bikes just like that, new older bikes. It was called Nicollet South Bike shop. I just checked and they are closed until mid-feb.

Walter

Taken from an eBay auction. Probably older than you have in mind.

Has Bikes Direct bought the Legnano name yet? This is original though not high line.

So, older, even much older, bikes can still be had.

https://cgi.ebay.com/NOS-Vintage-Legn...QQcmdZViewItem

Not shilling for the seller but thought it appropriate to give the link since I used his pic.