Retro on a budget. is it possible?
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RickTheUncivil
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Ebay plus patience equals winning.
Search local for a collection only and play the game, might not win first time but I have bought decent, ready to roll bikes for sub £50 leaving space for tweaking and fixing.
Search local for a collection only and play the game, might not win first time but I have bought decent, ready to roll bikes for sub £50 leaving space for tweaking and fixing.
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Less well known brands are often good for a bargain, khs for instance, though they don't come up much. English brands too - saracen, claud butler, dawes, Raleigh etc, and not so few and far between
I see you're somewhere pretty remote which must make it harder, unless you're able to put in time and miles - bargains are usually collection only and postage is a big proportion anyway at that end of the market.
Good luck!
Less well known brands are often good for a bargain, khs for instance, though they don't come up much. English brands too - saracen, claud butler, dawes, Raleigh etc, and not so few and far between
I see you're somewhere pretty remote which must make it harder, unless you're able to put in time and miles - bargains are usually collection only and postage is a big proportion anyway at that end of the market.
Good luck!
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As others have said, patience is the key. I've had plenty of bikes that match what you want for half your budget.
As others have said, patience is the key. I've had plenty of bikes that match what you want for half your budget.
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Unless someone on here spots it first, then you're stuffed
This ^^^^ there are some cracking mid 90's bikes from raleigh (torus, early RSP bikes) and maybe something like the dawes edge, they usually go for not very much considering how good some of them actually are.jaypee":2tql9hie said:
Unless someone on here spots it first, then you're stuffed
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Avid v-brakes – cheap and real show stoppers: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/avid ... -prod22386
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Not quite under the ton (although price is discussable), and in froggy surrender-monkey-land, but this looks nice and tidy (the judys need new elastomers, though).
http://www.leboncoin.fr/velos/752197298.htm?ca=22_s
The only real downside is that it's equipped with "gripshit" changers.
Not quite under the ton (although price is discussable), and in froggy surrender-monkey-land, but this looks nice and tidy (the judys need new elastomers, though).
http://www.leboncoin.fr/velos/752197298.htm?ca=22_s
The only real downside is that it's equipped with "gripshit" changers.
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