rosstheboss
Retrobike Rider
Are you sure it isn't a combination of winter coming and the memory of the Olympics fading a little?
does the value of a road frame/bike change because . . .
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rosstheboss
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suburbanreuben
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rosstheboss":1cxg8fos said:
Exactly! We'll soon be being mugged by Santa once again. Christmas is only 7 weeks away. :xmas-big-grin:
jonnyboy666":iqxsx3ts said:
i think the steel merckx frame,s have a great following,and will always demand a good price.i really dont think the new boys on the block type of trek , specialized and scott will ever demand the same sort of retail price in years to come
rosstheboss
Retrobike Rider
rosstheboss":2esg0icq said:
Either that or the Shoreditch trendies have deemed them uncool....
rosstheboss":30vr3hjg said:
The classified ads in Cycling Weekly are usually a good measure of this - once the decent weather ends and all the more-money-than-sense types of a certain build and age realise that cycling is actually quite hard work compared to loafing about on a golf course, an awful lot of high-end road bikes with "only <insert small number here> dry miles" covered seem to end up being sold through those columns....
David
Robbied196
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does the value of a road frame/bike change because . . .Jimmy Saville once owned it?
Robbied196":1961sxa2 said:
I remember JS extollling the virtues of British Rail's shiny new Inter-City 125s in television adverts [1]. Unlikely to deter today's rail passengers from still using them, though....
David
[1] Insert dubious joke based on the ad slogan here.
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I think the us postal and discovery bikes have lost value because of it .
maybe not a massive amount but a little bit .
maybe not a massive amount but a little bit .
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