Forgive me fellow retrobikers for I have sinned...

[winjohn]

I was at a car boot sale yesterday and bought a bike-shaped object. An Indigo Vuelta AR2 to be precise, never heard of it, me neither.
It was 20 quid but looked pretty much unused and came with a full Shimano Sora 3500 groupset, including shifters and crankset. It is already stripped out and the frame is waiting to go to the tip.
Looking on eBay people seem to be asking well over £100 for these groupsets, the strange economics of used bike continue to amaze me.

 

[widowmaker]

What size is it

 

[winjohn]

Too small for you! And you definitely would not have wanted it! It rode like a dead fish!

 

[widowmaker]

I can imagine.

Good score though!

 

[winjohn]

Pun intended?

 

[pigman]

"To the tip" is a bit strong. There's always someone who can make use of it. Personally I'd sooner ride this than some of the tat that folk on here have restored and love. Some of that 70s gas pipe stuff really was bso tat, but we rode them and had fun.

It's much like saying if you don't drive something coming out of Bavaria, it needs to go to the scrappers.

Any bike charities nearby?

 

[hamster]

"To the tip" is a bit strong. There's always someone who can make use of it. Personally I'd sooner ride this than some of the tat that folk on here have restored and love. Some of that 70s gas pipe stuff really was bso tat, but we rode them and had fun.

It's much like saying if you don't drive something coming out of Bavaria, it needs to go to the scrappers.

Any bike charities nearby?

Looks like it has mudguard eyes - an ideal city commuter which you can leave locked up without a second glance from a bike thief.

 

[winjohn]

I can't see a future for it as a bike. By the time someone has put all the bits back on it they will be into it for the best part of £100 and still end up with a bike that is not pleasant to ride. The economics of the situation don't add up. There are no bike charities near me that fix up bikes to sell that I know of. You can't give away bikes like this around here. Seriously it's the best option IMHO, the parts will live on attached to something worth riding. I would be more than happy to give it to anyone who wants it, along with my 4 old aluminium MTB frames come and collect them please.

 

[Takingabreak]

I can't see a future for it as a bike. By the time someone has put all the bits back on it they will be into it for the best part of £100 and still end up with a bike that is not pleasant to ride. The economics of the situation don't add up. There are no bike charities near me that fix up bikes to sell that I know of. You can't give away bikes like this around here. Seriously it's the best option IMHO, the parts will live on attached to something worth riding. I would be more than happy to give it to anyone who wants it, along with my 4 old aluminium MTB frames come and collect them please.

I think it's the rim / tyre combination on these cheap road bikes that make them so unpleasant to ride.

EDIT - they seem to lack any form of compliance