Leroy Diplowski

I recently posted in here after buying a handful of vintage bikes in various states of completion. I was summarily chastised for paying too much for them. I've since repainted and sold two of the frames, and I've been riding the wheels off the other one. Now I've been thinking of getting something a little classier and giving the Takara to my brother. I stumbled across this the other day, and it kind of caught my eye. What do you guys think I should offer the guy for it? Google does not offer many hits for a Zunow brand bike.

jet sanchEz

Search thread titles for "zunow" and you will see that this is the bike of a member here....it is a pretty nice bike and yes, Zunows are rare.

Leroy Diplowski

cool! thanks for the info. It would be kinda awkward if he posts in this thread lol maybe I can get a bikeforums discount.

yepyep

I think it is spelled "Monaz"

CV-6 

Actually that bike has been outed before and the owner did post to that thread.

Leroy Diplowski

After a little more research on the forums (thanks, jet sanchez) I found that he had an offer for $400 fall through. I googled "zunow craigslist" and got a lot of hits from ads all over the country and only the ones with campy groups and the psychedelic paintjobs and such went for much over $300. It is a really cool bike, and I don;t want to lowball the guy, but a penny saved is a penny earned. I'm on a pretty thrifty budget, so I was thinking of offering him $300 and then maybe haggling a bit from there. Does this seem like a fairly good starting point?

Exit.

Zunows are some of the finest bikes ever to come out of Japan. Buy it.

luker

give him $300 for it. $350 if he keeps the Scott bars.

unworthy1

Hah! ^+1 to that^

guygadois 

This bike has been up for sale for a LONG time. Not sure what the guy is waiting for. It is on CL and on various other boards for sale.

-GG-

jet sanchEz

Use jaxed to search for Zunows on CL and Ebay around the world....careful, it is addictive

https://www.jaxed.com/cgi-bin/mash.cg...now&cat=cpbike

scbvideoboy

I own a 1986 Zunow, bought from a little Japanese Bike Shop, when I was over there serving USMC.
Back in the states I had a person add canti posts so I could use it for some off road /cycle cross.

Been up in the attic, and I started to rehab it, but ended up buying a Soma Fabrication "Double Cross" frame and using most of the Shimano 600 group. It really needs stripping and bead blast, but where am I gonna get Zunow decals?





Any Zunow = instant buy

DH

cudak888 

Don't dare do that, even if it is repainted. Beauty as-is, and the yellow repainted spots are excusable for the fact that one expects crazy paint jobs on a Zunow.

The presence of the canti posts are screaming to be used though - a full-Campy Zunow cyclocross bike? There's a unique thought.

-Kurt

cuonawv

"What I'm waiting for..." It's sooooo hard to get rid of her.. It kills me to see her sitting there not getting use and I'm always thinking.. Maybe tomorrow I'll get out there for a bit.. It never seems to happen. I've had two GREAT rides over the past 5 months. For someone living down here in Sunny So Florida. That's not even close to what it should be..

Okay - I finally took the old scott bars off. You have NO IDEA how many e-mail jabs I got about those things..

I think I'm looking for trades now (going to the muddy, fat tire side). It may be a little less painful to let her go if I have something else new and shiney to play with.. I'm hoping I may have better luck getting to the trails for an hour or so a month and a 2-3hr ride every week..

RobbieTunes

Funny, but I just sold a set for $50.

Seems some road guys like to cut the one-piece sets in half and they make a pretty good set of clip-ons.

RobbieTunes

lsdmt has a Zunow Hummingbird, and if it fit me, I'd have whacked for it. Nice bike.

jet sanchEz

Re-do your ad with the HTML code for the photos copied into the ad, you will get much better results as the details are more evident.

To be honest, I have no idea why you are having a hard time selling this bike---pop it up on eBay as a frame/fork only with a BIN of $350 on it and it will sell right away. There were 31 bids on this exact frame in a 54cm size just over a month ago and it ended at $1000---> https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=190299745850

Take the information posted in that eBay auction and apply it to your auction and see what happens?

edit: your CL ad has the photo of the bike with the Scott bars still attached. Also, in the new photos that you took, raise the seat and lower the stem and take some clear shots of the bike against a white wall or garage door---it is a beautiful bike but it looks odd with the stem so high and the seat so low.

I really think you should go the eBay route though; no one is really all that impressed with 105 so take it off and use it on a day-to-day bike that you can buy with that $350 you will be getting