You forgot to mention that it's enormous.

I put the saddle on, vintage titanium $75 Canadian,thats about ten bucks US

You know that if any of those three were Japanese and my size, I'd be showing up at your house with a bike rack and later telling my husband "they followed me home, honey".

Great deals! After all this virus stuff passes and my children return to school, we really need to go for a ride.

Well it depends on your perspective, I'm 6+ft tall with a 37in inseam so unless this is a 64cm it is way at the low end of my range as I can ride a 66 and do much better on them.

Not C&V, but 3-speed content: When Spin retired their dockless bikes in the South Florida region, I asked them for some my Bike Share Museum. They virtually handed me the keys to the warehouse.

Over the course of three months, I was able to donate 500 bulletproof 3-speeds between charities, community members, the county's bike program, and the non-profit I work for (who got them to Freeport to aid the hurricane relief).

Technically, there's still 38 rough ones to sort out, but COVID-19 has put the brakes on the project for now.



Got to keep two brand new ones for preservation too, plus one for my office (which is getting converted into a pedelec at the moment):





-Kurt

Not a C&V, but I'm pretty happy with this find.

2008 Cannondale 6 thirteen road bike. Looks to be all original. Tires were flat, but I pumped them up to 100 psi and they held air overnight. Went on a test ride, and everything seems to work fine, with only some minor adjustments to the sifters.

Stupid-light bike. Mix of components, 105 brifters, Truvativ crank and Ultegra deraillers. The seller threw in some Shimano clip pedals, 4 inner tubes and the saddle bag.




Got this from a couple that doesn't ride any more. $125.

Kind of wish I had also bought the slightly older Fuji they had, only asking $50 for that one...

Oh please, you call that the sticks? Neither of you are behind the Redwood Curtain. Try 95521. Hah!

ETA: Wish I had something substantive to contribute. Some day.

Man, I would love to live up there. lets compare scenery shall we? this is what i see unless i drive an hour or more....

Yes, but if you're willing to drive an hour: https://pjammcycling.com/climb/152.Hwy%20198%20General's%20Highway

I did this climb last year! (since we are gloating) San Boldo Pass

Excellent. That's a wicked sting in the tail toward the end there! 25%! Not even Mineral King Road is that steep.

I grew up in Tracy, I'm familiar. Frankly, I kind of miss miles-long views. But then there's this.



Winter sunset

Much better. AND you have Lost Coast for brews!!!

I once paid $205 for an mid 80s Miyata 718a and a '77 Centurion Semi Pro that had Phil Wood hubs. They were about two miles from my home. Both in good-to-very-good salvageable condition. I did put in new consumables and cables, but I think that I sold them separately for $725, after having ridden the Centurion for more than a year. That was a great bike. The Miyata went to a new triathlete - stiff and nimble, a perfect fit.

I sold these for $248.50 on Ebay this past year:



DD

What crank is that? I've never seen one where the spider is symmetrical to the crank arm.

I think these are my two most recent 'super deal' purchases. The Holdsworth Professional was $75. The Peugeot PX-10 was $37.50 (I bought two bikes for $75). Both needed a complete rehab as can be seen in the pictures. The Peugeot was complete so the picture was after I started breaking it down. I have about $350 total into both of them.

I have had a few, the best score was these two, 1974's Raleigh Pro and Schwinn Paramount P10



They were bestowed on me from a friend of my Brothers tuna These bikes were her uncles and he had passed away. so these two were given to us as they were cleaning out the uncles storage.

The other score as some may know about a 1988 Centurion Ironman made by Zunow for Mike Pigg and the 1988 Tri Season. the components had been changed except the Dura Ace Headset and Bottom Bracket

Paid $175 for the bike.

Holy moly this thread is awesome. All of these gorgeous tall bikes are making this 6'3 guy envious!

Dura Ace AX Fc-7300? I think that used Dyna drive pedals. Jim used many of these to make his triples out of. This one has adapters that he made so is very very cool for me.

Some great history there!

And, is that a 52 tooth big ring?!?!?!?

yes this very interesting engineering history- more please if you have it.

It may not be a coincidence that the great deals are on larger frame bikes..... I am fairly tall but often curse as a bike is super cheap at 63cm and its just out of what I can really properly use.

That's been my experience. Always seem to see killer deals on the tall bikes. There's a Miyata 1000 sitting on Craigslist near me for a song - 61cm.

Well this was not a bargain, but it is something I have been after for years. A 1988 3Rensho Katana, mechanically perfect, zero rust. zero dents, with scabby paint, in my size and I'm so happy I'm willing to gloat a bit .



: Mike