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Klunker Candidate in "Ride As Found" Category?
Schwimmer World Sport Men's Bike
$20Listed a week ago in Roanoke, VA
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Used - Fair

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Making up the numbers
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They shouldn't be using butter on their bearings
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Bikes are okay, I guess.
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Perfect photos and setting for a pricy carbon bike. You just know it's been well taken care of.
https://richmond.craigslist.org/bik/...582040521.html
https://richmond.craigslist.org/bik/...582040521.html

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Perfect photos and setting for a pricy carbon bike. You just know it's been well taken care of.
https://richmond.craigslist.org/bik/...582040521.html

https://richmond.craigslist.org/bik/...582040521.html


As a Kestrel fan this pains me.
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The most carefully staged eBay photo
The Bugati must have been in the shop. Is it wrong to hope this bike rolled backwards, and the Tesla cushioned its fall?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/18575320205...Cclp%3A2047675

https://www.ebay.com/itm/18575320205...Cclp%3A2047675
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Not necessarily a wacky listing. I think it's pretty fair, all things considered. But the components themselves certainly quailfy!
https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/b...581097292.html
Mavic's "Mektronic" electronic shifting, a decade or more before DI2.
https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/b...581097292.html
Mavic's "Mektronic" electronic shifting, a decade or more before DI2.
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Deal of the Millennium Pinarello
Steel is Real Vintage bikes Facistbook group The campagnolo 'center pull' brakes may be worth the price
57CM Pinarello Traviso:
Lugged Columbus tube frame set with chrome fork and drive side chain stay.
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57CM Pinarello Traviso:
Lugged Columbus tube frame set with chrome fork and drive side chain stay.
Campagnolo 6-speed indexed drive train.
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Michi Competition hubs laced to double-wall alloy rims with reinforced spoke holes and Presta valves.
$1200.00. See the entire collection on line at =AT1SsjhLmp-KtIWd5Te3_siolyAB6cGu7ZnpybtBI4gZPEm7V9vSVGVLjAPt8gRVq6kF2_SFzLPbBCzB09Q-U_BoLbtS5-juv4rGPKnbzlP11p8MM8Cc5KHHF1Q0zZnhCQtyzIrz-DWbvgRYJ95b9ooMNkH48Zs942pIzKnLodNxYUnXE6kU_mqhmhfSLlE]VicsClassicBikes.com or in our studio in Louisville Kentucky. World wide shipping available.

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Schwimmer World Sport Men's Bike
$20Listed a week ago in Roanoke, VA
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Used - Fair

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The stem looks like it is way above minimum insertion line and is about to snap... and o, yeah, it's got the off road rear wheel option!

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and the rear brake cable is still there, ready to go if you can find extra-extra-extra-long-reach calipers!
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Just slightly overpriced.

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1987 Raleigh USA 753, $2,250, no good pics. Didn't bother to take it down off the wall.
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I was at Walmart yesterday in the “garden center” and noticed that they were pre-oxidizing the BSO’s

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(it is a remarkably tall frame)
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Schwimmer World Sport Men's Bike
$20Listed a week ago in Roanoke, VA
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Used - Fair

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Bikes are okay, I guess.
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It's winter and nice Brooks saddles are selling for about $75 and up, so what kind of crack addled "brooks enthusiast" would want this at $50 ......**********???
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...25303355640862
Listed about an hour ago in Mahopac, NY
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Vintage BROOKS England Bicycle Seat - ROUGH CONDITION
$50Listed about an hour ago in Mahopac, NY
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My grasp of geography is failing.
Where in Italy are/were Panasonic bikes made???? Was it just outside of Pisa or Palermo, or Padau??
Seller tries to bluff and says "hardly ever rode at this price its a steal (look it up you see)", when clearly he didn't bother to google the name "Panasonic". It is a DX-2400 and at not bad a price but the photos are abysmal and any seller this stupid seems hardly worth the visit.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...29481717375177
Listed 2 days ago in Chesterfield, MI
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Where in Italy are/were Panasonic bikes made???? Was it just outside of Pisa or Palermo, or Padau??

Seller tries to bluff and says "hardly ever rode at this price its a steal (look it up you see)", when clearly he didn't bother to google the name "Panasonic". It is a DX-2400 and at not bad a price but the photos are abysmal and any seller this stupid seems hardly worth the visit.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...29481717375177
ITALIAN TOURING/ RACE BIKE/PANASONIC BRAND NEW
$175Listed 2 days ago in Chesterfield, MI
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Used – like new

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Bikes are okay, I guess.
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