Need advice on an apollo
06-29-15, 06:58 PM
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06-29-15, 07:21 PM
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I don't think so, but more information and better pics are needed. Looks like a upper lowend machine from the late '70s early '80s. While they appear to be bolt on it does look to at least have alloy wheels.
Vancouver $300 clams.
Vancouver $300 clams.
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06-29-15, 07:24 PM
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Typical Vancouver sky high price. It probably will sell. Fork looks a little tweaked.
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06-29-15, 08:25 PM
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Offer $240 but be prepared to pay 280 if it fits and has good tires, round wheels & new cables.
You will have to ride the bike for two whole months in order to break even if you use it instead of Vancouver transit. If the bike lasts a few years you will be ahead by about $600... per year for every year.
The bike may only last 10 or 20 years. But this applies to ANY old steel bike you might buy, so make sure you get one that fits you.
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06-29-15, 11:33 PM
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I know this may not be the favourable thing to do, but I plan on making this my daiky commuter for however long it will last me so I will make a craps ton of changes. I'll be swapping out the wheels for 700's, adding shimano 105 sti shifters , and installing new deraillers, chain, and eventually crankshaft. Go on, give me hell.
06-30-15, 03:37 AM
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Is the Apollo worth it? In Vancouver, perhaps, but not with a bent fork!
I just picked up a bike the OP will love, an eighties something Miele Gara, one of the top dogs to be released from the Miele kennel. No pics yet, as I am getting the bike in a couple of hours. I will offer it for sale, cheap, on the For Sale forum, later today, unless, of course, I decide to keep the bike, which is most unlikely (darn things are piling up again, and now I have no Old Shed to keep them in).
I just picked up a bike the OP will love, an eighties something Miele Gara, one of the top dogs to be released from the Miele kennel. No pics yet, as I am getting the bike in a couple of hours. I will offer it for sale, cheap, on the For Sale forum, later today, unless, of course, I decide to keep the bike, which is most unlikely (darn things are piling up again, and now I have no Old Shed to keep them in).
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06-30-15, 12:09 PM
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It's a nice looking bike but, I don't like cottered cranks. It's also got bolt on wheels. Looks like a bike ready for upright handlebar conversion & a grocery basket. I wouldn't be interested unless it was way cheaper. Don't pay more than $150 for that.
07-01-15, 09:53 AM
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I know this may not be the favourable thing to do, but I plan on making this my daiky commuter for however long it will last me so I will make a craps ton of changes. I'll be swapping out the wheels for 700's, adding shimano 105 sti shifters , and installing new deraillers, chain, and eventually crankshaft. Go on, give me hell.
Bikesdirect.com. Use the free shipping option to Blaine or Point Roberts. For less than 500 Canadian Pesos you can have a *new* bike with a lighter and stronger alu frame, a carbon fork, far superior dual pivot brakes, better wheels, more gearing range and integrated brake shift levers. I've done this. Everyone I know that bikes does this, and not just through this vendor, but a dozen others. The Vancouver used bike market is a joke - best just to bypass it completely.
07-01-15, 10:15 AM
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Those were bikes from the Cochran Dunlop hardware store in Canada ,nice bikes considering but definitely not something to worship 30 years later .
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