gerryattrick
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I often pop in to local car boot sales on the lookout for bike parts, and have sometimes come across decent stuff from what I assume are amateur carbooters, usually old and in a very tatty condition, but very cheap and worth taking a punt on for parts or a rebuild. However there are always people selling only bikes and bike stuff, most of which is the usual cheap Emmelle/Apollo/Townsend, but sometimes you come across Marin/Kona/Spesh. A few weekends ago I was browsing at one stall when a young kid was trying to sell them a Hardrock that could only have been a year or two old and looked in very good nick and in the end they bought it for around £25 telling him the most they could sell it for would be £50. Call me cynical but it doesn't take a genius to work out why a 16/17 year old was selling a bike like that so cheaply with no questions asked. Needless to say the bike was put around the back of the stall rather than being put up for sale (probably by pure coincidence I saw that what was no doubt a legitimate example of the same model/colour bike was put on a well-known auction site the next day from a location not too far away). I've seen comments on this site before about the dubious nature of bikes sold at car boot sales, and this instance probably won't stop me looking for genuine bargains, but it will certainly make me avoid certain sellers and newish bikes and ask more questions of the seller.
I feel bad about not doing anything but a) I've grown used to my face being the shape it is, and b) absolutely no way of proving anything.
I feel bad about not doing anything but a) I've grown used to my face being the shape it is, and b) absolutely no way of proving anything.
