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10-03-19, 07:32 PM
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Don't come any wackier than this...
Floating Bike, Need Gone!! - $50 (Valparaiso)
https://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/b...983892760.html
Floating Bike, Need Gone!! - $50 (Valparaiso)
https://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/b...983892760.html
10-03-19, 08:34 PM
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Not sure if Facebook marketplace is allowed, but this is a real winner:
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...0756511012808/
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...0756511012808/
10-03-19, 08:59 PM
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Not sure if Facebook marketplace is allowed, but this is a real winner:
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...0756511012808/
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...0756511012808/
10-03-19, 09:05 PM
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This is on my local FB Marketplace, I'm getting a Thule roof rack from him as soon as he recovers from a medical issue and I asked him to set one frame from this picture aside for me. It's nothing special but it's a chrome moly frame with forged dropouts in my size and since I'm making the drive anyway I figured I might as well give it a look. I know the paint will be in tough shape from being piled up with all those others but for my purposes it doesn't matter. Otherwise it was mainly old Schwinn Varsities, low end Taiwan bikes, etc.
10-03-19, 09:06 PM
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10-03-19, 09:15 PM
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10-03-19, 10:00 PM
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10-04-19, 07:14 AM
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Wow! A BMC that could easily pass for a GMC. Decked out with Dura Ace? What gives? 
Only $950, in any event.
https://losangeles.craigslist.org/la...988549152.html
Only $950, in any event.
https://losangeles.craigslist.org/la...988549152.html
10-04-19, 08:18 AM
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10-04-19, 09:07 AM
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That ^^^^^ could be a whole WW sub-topic - not just BAD pics, but pics of pics, pics of screen-shots from other postings with useless "wrapper" data (like, we really need to know the time, temperature and battery life...), etc.
The whole "wacky world" world is so wacky, it could easily support several sub-themes:
* How many ways can you post a "meta" pic? The "takes the cake" version is a horizontal screen-scrape of a vertical photo of a horizontal subject. All that black-space really adds visual meaning, eh?...
* How long can you go without noticing the backward fork?
* How many ways can you misspell "Schwinn"?
The whole "wacky world" world is so wacky, it could easily support several sub-themes:
* How many ways can you post a "meta" pic? The "takes the cake" version is a horizontal screen-scrape of a vertical photo of a horizontal subject. All that black-space really adds visual meaning, eh?...
* How long can you go without noticing the backward fork?
* How many ways can you misspell "Schwinn"?
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10-04-19, 09:15 AM
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Wow! A BMC that could easily pass for a GMC. Decked out with Dura Ace? What gives?
Only $950, in any event.
https://losangeles.craigslist.org/la...988549152.html
Only $950, in any event.
https://losangeles.craigslist.org/la...988549152.html
10-04-19, 09:19 AM
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I dunno. I own a BMC, and I'm as puzzled as you are. It looks to be welded aluminum, but I never heard of BMC making any aluminum bikes. And the "Road Racer" decal is ridiculously large.
10-04-19, 09:45 AM
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Lipstick on a pig?
This looks like a really carefully done restoration, but short of gold-plating, I don't think there's anything you could do to this bike to make it worth over $500:
https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/bi...990346292.html
Beautiful 70's Azuki Gran-Sport with a nice lug frame made in Japan. Azuki is a sister bike to Nishiki both were manufactured by Kawamura Cycle in Kobe Japan and distributed in the US by West Coast Cycle, This bike has undergone a painstaking restoration. The bike was placed on the bike stand and totally striped down to the bare frame and front forks. I took the frame and forks had them media blasted and powder coated ($150 expense)- matching the powder coat finish to the original blue paint. When replacing the head badge it was riveted back on like it was done in the factory. The bike has Araya alloy wheels with quick release hubs made in Japan. The bike sports a nice Maxy alloy crank with Suntour shifters and rear derailleur. All parts were either meticulously cleaned or replaced. The bike has brand new tires, tubes, rim strips, seat, cables, casings, handlebar tape, and of course new decals. The crank bearings are new and packed in bicycle grease. After the bike was nearing completion i took it to Bicycle Face for some finishing touches. They installed new leather handlebar wrap and inflated the tires to the proper psi. Bicycle face also professionally trued the wheels. Alot of time and money have been spent on this restoration. So if you are looking for a beautiful vintage road bike this is it - you will be hard pressed to find another one this nice, text is the best way to reach me. Asking $530
https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/bi...990346292.html
Beautiful 70's Azuki Gran-Sport with a nice lug frame made in Japan. Azuki is a sister bike to Nishiki both were manufactured by Kawamura Cycle in Kobe Japan and distributed in the US by West Coast Cycle, This bike has undergone a painstaking restoration. The bike was placed on the bike stand and totally striped down to the bare frame and front forks. I took the frame and forks had them media blasted and powder coated ($150 expense)- matching the powder coat finish to the original blue paint. When replacing the head badge it was riveted back on like it was done in the factory. The bike has Araya alloy wheels with quick release hubs made in Japan. The bike sports a nice Maxy alloy crank with Suntour shifters and rear derailleur. All parts were either meticulously cleaned or replaced. The bike has brand new tires, tubes, rim strips, seat, cables, casings, handlebar tape, and of course new decals. The crank bearings are new and packed in bicycle grease. After the bike was nearing completion i took it to Bicycle Face for some finishing touches. They installed new leather handlebar wrap and inflated the tires to the proper psi. Bicycle face also professionally trued the wheels. Alot of time and money have been spent on this restoration. So if you are looking for a beautiful vintage road bike this is it - you will be hard pressed to find another one this nice, text is the best way to reach me. Asking $530
10-04-19, 09:54 AM
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The inside left chainstay says 'thisismyrace' and 'Rudy Project', so the big letters on the seat tube must be 'rudy', but googling that stuff doesn't solve the riddle
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10-04-19, 10:13 AM
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This looks like a really carefully done restoration, but short of gold-plating, I don't think there's anything you could do to this bike to make it worth over $500:
https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/bi...990346292.html
Beautiful 70's Azuki Gran-Sport with a nice lug frame made in Japan. Azuki is a sister bike to Nishiki both were manufactured by Kawamura Cycle in Kobe Japan and distributed in the US by West Coast Cycle, This bike has undergone a painstaking restoration. The bike was placed on the bike stand and totally striped down to the bare frame and front forks. I took the frame and forks had them media blasted and powder coated ($150 expense)- matching the powder coat finish to the original blue paint. When replacing the head badge it was riveted back on like it was done in the factory. The bike has Araya alloy wheels with quick release hubs made in Japan. The bike sports a nice Maxy alloy crank with Suntour shifters and rear derailleur. All parts were either meticulously cleaned or replaced. The bike has brand new tires, tubes, rim strips, seat, cables, casings, handlebar tape, and of course new decals. The crank bearings are new and packed in bicycle grease. After the bike was nearing completion i took it to Bicycle Face for some finishing touches. They installed new leather handlebar wrap and inflated the tires to the proper psi. Bicycle face also professionally trued the wheels. Alot of time and money have been spent on this restoration. So if you are looking for a beautiful vintage road bike this is it - you will be hard pressed to find another one this nice, text is the best way to reach me. Asking $530
https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/bi...990346292.html
Beautiful 70's Azuki Gran-Sport with a nice lug frame made in Japan. Azuki is a sister bike to Nishiki both were manufactured by Kawamura Cycle in Kobe Japan and distributed in the US by West Coast Cycle, This bike has undergone a painstaking restoration. The bike was placed on the bike stand and totally striped down to the bare frame and front forks. I took the frame and forks had them media blasted and powder coated ($150 expense)- matching the powder coat finish to the original blue paint. When replacing the head badge it was riveted back on like it was done in the factory. The bike has Araya alloy wheels with quick release hubs made in Japan. The bike sports a nice Maxy alloy crank with Suntour shifters and rear derailleur. All parts were either meticulously cleaned or replaced. The bike has brand new tires, tubes, rim strips, seat, cables, casings, handlebar tape, and of course new decals. The crank bearings are new and packed in bicycle grease. After the bike was nearing completion i took it to Bicycle Face for some finishing touches. They installed new leather handlebar wrap and inflated the tires to the proper psi. Bicycle face also professionally trued the wheels. Alot of time and money have been spent on this restoration. So if you are looking for a beautiful vintage road bike this is it - you will be hard pressed to find another one this nice, text is the best way to reach me. Asking $530
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10-04-19, 10:17 AM
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Nice Reynolds SuperCourse frame (58cm) Dayton
This seems like a nice condition, affordable Reynolds frame for a project. https://dayton.craigslist.org/bik/d/...989998189.html
10-04-19, 11:34 AM
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This seems like a nice condition, affordable Reynolds frame for a project. https://dayton.craigslist.org/bik/d/...989998189.html
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10-04-19, 12:16 PM
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27 inch road bike womens - $50
"great bike garage kept lubed often.
bicycle frame material: alloy
bicycle type: road
frame size: 1.5 inch
wheel size: 27 in"
https://wilmington.craigslist.org/bi...978504424.html
10-04-19, 12:24 PM
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Fixed that for ya.... Yup, totally wrong bike to dedicate to the level of effort claimed in the ad. In fact, this simple reality invites skepticism wrt. the claim. This isn't just a very well cleaned-up barn find? Could he really have had it powder-coated, but thinly enough that it isn't glaringly obvious around the lugs, and with that exact metallic gloss not typically seen since the days disco sucked? And all that painstaking effort, new gumwall tires, mounted incorrectly? Not pegging the BS meter necessarily, but the pointer's above idle speed anyway.
So what's wacky about it, other than the photo shoot setting?
So what's wacky about it, other than the photo shoot setting?
10-04-19, 04:19 PM
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This seems like a nice condition, affordable Reynolds frame for a project. https://dayton.craigslist.org/bik/d/...989998189.html
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She had sent her husband to the store for a super coarse brush to clean the toilet???
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Ask about shipping it can't be more than a Franklin to get it to ya. Smiles, MH
Ask about shipping it can't be more than a Franklin to get it to ya. Smiles, MH
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