Originally Posted by
pacificcyclist
I see that you're from Canada, so touring bikes in general are a bit of a hard sell cause there's just not a huge market for it. Grand Fondo is the big thing now, so bikes geared to that kind of event will sell for more.
And there is a glut of new old stock touring bikes being priced down to like $799 or $899 new (Fuji Touring/ Raleigh SoJourn and Kona Sutra for like $1200) due to the end of the recent bike boom due to high gas prices, so they are going to be your starting point divided by half.
Unless a person is looking for a Bruce Gordon bike, your value in the brand name is going to mean very little to an average buyer. And in some provinces like Vancouver, BC, Canada, you will have a heck of a time selling a touring bike like yours at top dollar. That's just the way it is.
Pacificcyclist - sadly you're right about the Canadian market. I'm in Ontario and have had several people interested but all men that are considerably taller than me. Need to find a man that's looking for a bike for his short wife
I've got a bike seat that the kids ride on behind me but of course the seat won't fit on my BG so it's on my 25 year old clunker mountain bike instead.