Not looking good for MOMBAT.ORG revival

[caemis]

This is crazy. One can not sell a collection like this! The website, granted, single bikes of course but everything at all. Who would be interessted AND could afford it, since we're not talking about 10.000$...

Edit:

Maybe a crowdfunding project might be a good idea, if someone is willing and capable of taking in 400+ bikes and parts, etc...

Still crazy :shock:

 

[M-Power]

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Lots of very rare valuable bikes. This could easily be valued at seven figs +. Hope some entrepreneur brings it to the UK and starts a museum. I suspect it will be bought cheap and flogged off though :facepalm:

 

[BoyBurning]

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I suspect it will be bought cheap and flogged off though :facepalm:

I suspect you're wrong.

I would think that if someone doesn't stump up half a million for the collection, then FFB will sell off individual bikes themselves, or use their numerous friends to do so.

Quite a few of the bikes in the collection are 'relatively' mainstream and could be sold off through [eg.] ebay using adverts similar to those set up by [eg.] TPC.

The more significant 'core' bikes will be bought by [or sales achieved by] the big players in our little game.

There's lots of members on here / other forums / elsewhere, who if they don't buy the bikes themselves would certainly help the family achieve good homes and prices for valued bikes through targeted and well compiled sales.

There are a limited number of players in our little game [eg. Mike you know who] who would much rather give away [effectively] significant bikes to museums and such rather than flog them to the highest bidder.

As such, I suspect the collection in part will continue, albeit in a fragmented fashion spread across several museums, shops, and other publicly accessible collections.


Are my thoughts, and hopes.

 

[M-Power]

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I suspect it will be bought cheap and flogged off though :facepalm:

I suspect you're wrong.

I would think that if someone doesn't stump up half a million for the collection, then FFB will sell off individual bikes themselves, or use their numerous friends to do so.

Quite a few of the bikes in the collection are 'relatively' mainstream and could be sold off through [eg.] ebay using adverts similar to those set up by [eg.] TPC.

The more significant 'core' bikes will be bought by [or sales achieved by] the big players in our little game.

There's lots of members on here / other forums / elsewhere, who if they don't buy the bikes themselves would certainly help the family achieve good homes and prices for valued bikes through targeted and well compiled sales.

There are a limited number of players in our little game [eg. Mike you know who] who would much rather give away [effectively] significant bikes to museums and such rather than flog them to the highest bidder.

As such, I suspect the collection in part will continue, albeit in a fragmented fashion spread across several museums, shops, and other publicly accessible collections.


Are my thoughts, and hopes.

And I hope you are right ( insider intel ? ) but normally....money talks....and they may be glad of a fast cash injection in the business. Lots of bike stores dying at the moment as Interweb and Manufacturers are increasingly selling direct.

 

[FluffyChicken]

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Can live without mombat though do use it and archive.org have it backed up.(I'll scrape it all soon as well).

But BIKEPRO is the better site for the geek in oneself.
And that is flakey to. Up and down

Now Sheldon's site. The other bible.

 

[sinnerman]

The Pros Closet

 

[caemis]

The Pros Closet

Statement, assumption, fact or question?

 

[M-Power]

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TPC must be the natural Mombat takeover partner. They just need to raise some capital and buy the bikes.