Ah, the one that got away. Pics or it didn't happen somehow seems incredibly important in this thread. Does anyone - anyone - have at least one pic of a bike missed by "that much"..?

The one that comes to mind, for me, was a near mint bright pink Miyata 1000 Touring bike. I viewed it on the way home from work, one day. Talked to the lady, agreed on $60.00 CND, rode home as fast as I could, changed, grabbed the truck, went back to her house, cash in hand, only to see her nephew fussing with the Miyata, a bike he did not even know existed until that day. The lady apologized to me, saying that her nephew had happened by, saw the bike in her back porch and wanted it. What did I learn..?

Always have a hundred bucks, cash in my back pack and never ever again, leave a bike once found (assuming, of course, that you want the bike). That said and fifteen years later, I almost missed this one by ten minutes...