Originally Posted by HDavidH
Just picked up a Wards "Hawthorne" from a nice guy in Livonia. $150.00 for a like new late seventies (I'm guessing right now) green and chrome machine. It is in such good shape. Weighs a lot. I would have to say around 50 pounds with all the steel. My wife said she would try tandem with me so we were going to test ride a modern one (still might) but when I found this one on craiglist for the price of a dinner out I had to pick it up.
Woo Hoo!
It's too bad you weren't looking for a tandem last fall. I know the tandem you are talking about and that guy bought it for $25 from someone else on Craigslist. If I wasn't so busy with school and work I would have bought it back then myself. I do a little flipping on CL myself and that guy is totally flooding the market with some very inflated prices. I'm not saying $150 for that Hawthorne is bad, but some of his prices are just crazy. I guess that means good news for me because when I get a few more bikes on there my prices will seem more reasonable.
I must say though that the Hawthorne is a much more classy ride than my $150 tandem.
And by the way...where are you spending $150 on dinner?
I'm not too far from you, are you buying?
Have fun with it, for that is the most important thing