Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
What you mean is you can try to sell a used bike for what you paid for it. The vast majority of bikes being sold are being sold by the surviving spouses at garage sales or through co-ops. How many people plan to sell something after they have used it X years? Why is the re-sale value of a bicycle important? It isn't. Bicycles are a terrible investment. So are cars. Art, jewelry... now you're talking. Buy a bike because you like it, not because you think you can convince someone to pay you what you paid for it after you've used it for X years.
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If you buy a 15 year old bike, use it for a year, and decide you want a new higher end bike you darn well should be able to get roughly the same out of it for resale. If not you spent too much buying it in the first place. Bikes of decent quality tend to hit a floor when it comes to resale price, so if you buy it near that price you can more than likely resell it near that price. I'm not saying it's an investment (that would imply that you will MAKE money off the resale) I'm saying you can likely recoup close to the same money if you decide to resell because you either don't want a bike any more or you want a nicer bike.
By the way, jewelry is a horrible investment...