Originally Posted by
eschlwc
i disagree with this strawman criticism and lazy sarcasm: "Those vintage bikes are nice and all, but you have to be freaking HIGH to think your entry level beaters are worth more than $50. Nice Paint!"
i just overhauled a schwinn world and made a couple upgrades. paid $60. i'm gonna list it for $220. would i pay that for it? hell no, but i also did the work (which is worth $120 alone).
You must have a strong bike market economy there I'd hazard to guess? We have the same phenomenon here in the bay area, outside of the major bike economy's though I can't picture such bikes going for 100 let alone 220 or 700 (not to say your world sport is anywhere near the moneyhole that bike in the ad appears to be) for most people though investing $120 in time is an absurd notion since you'll never see the return on that, or likely even consumables, maybe we'll get lucky and [MENTION=109949]wrk101[/MENTION] will notice this thread since he definitely knows a lot about the flipper world.