For anybody else following this thread who is not familiar with this particular model, it is a really nice bike. The Reynolds 531 decal probably gave that it away, however.

The Trek product brochure from 1987 with model 560 information!

http://vintage-trek.com/images/trek/87TrekCatalog.pdf

robatsu... good thing you picked it up, since you can appreciate it. Pairs up nicely with the Trek in your other recent thread...I have an '85 520, so I was following it.

I was just out in the garage looking at mine. I'm impressed that southpawboston has got those fenders working - with the 25's that are on mine, there is only about 1/2 of clearance between the top of the tire and the underside of the fork crown, pretty close for mounting up a fender IME.

Whew! Senility has not set in yet!

Oh, wait. Senility is when you remember your childhood clearly, and you don't remember what you had for dinner. And I haven't had dinner yet. Or have I? Uh... never mind.

Good score on the bike! Is this a keeper?

And - just throwing this out there to neutralize the issue - there's a chance that #1-5 might never have existed. We all know how some sellers can be :)

Nice bike, nice price and what a pretty color!

DD

Perhaps 1-5 are on the fixie forum now, ruing their idled dremels? Or maybe they are my other 5 personalities?

I'm actually pretty fond of my minivan.

Ah, I so surmise you have a Madsen then?

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-3...senminivan.jpg

No but I want one.

You should fill that up with water and take the kids - in their bathing suits - for ride around the neighborhood :)

DD

I'm thinking so, at least it is the project after current one.

i bet you should fit a lot of cats in there.

It's not the early bird that get's the worm, but the fastest! #1 should have been admiring his new Trek 560 bike in is garage or living room by the time you saw it! "I'll go and look at it tomorrow", famous last words! A lot of these tomorrows never materialize due to buyer's remorse etc. Most of the time they never call to indicate that they are no longer interested, and so a person that was very interested may lose out, if he/she never get's a call from the seller. The score is a ligitimate. Congratulations!

Flash

Heh, I was thinking about this and wondered if they would list the capacity of that bucket in gallons. Turns out that they do: 40 gallons.

I wonder what it would feel like to be lugging 330 pounds.

I bet unless one had a lid on the top it would be pretty sloshy and half of it would be gone (or soaking your shoes and pants) by the time you got anywhere. I bet the Madsen could haul 330lbs no problem though.

It would feel sloshy.

Killer score Robatsu, and thanks for the story!

No kidding. Before the poster considers this, he may want to google up "free surface effect". Depending on the geometry, it could flip the bike, cause him to lose control, etc.

Thank you for your kind remarks.

Nice bike. I rebuilt that same bike for my son's campus bike.

As to your deal, I have no problem. That is the way cl works -- buyers and sellers set the rules within the scope of their economic power for commodities that are relatively unimportant, such as C&V bikes. That is pure free market, which should please the TeaPartiers among you. Also, that is why we have "regulations" when it comes to commodities that are necessary to life and business, like public utilities. The latter are not simple questions.

You make a good point. FWIW, I also sell a lot on ebay. Frequently, I get messages from other ebayers offering to buy my listing right now off the books. I never accept these for a couple of reasons. The first is that it complicates my life. But the second is that I do have a terms of service agreement w/Ebay that forbids this. Being in the software biz, I actually believe that this sort of thing is not pro forma BS (PFBS) and try to operate along it. CL is more or less a free market free for all and there I have no problem acting in accordance with that model.

You have a very clear understanding. As Obi Wan Kenobi concluded, "No more need be said. Move on."

I am bidding on one now. I missed your Deore road stuff earlier this year.

Small world.