Today's tip find: bin it or win it?

[legrandefromage]

Other than people who live on boats whose answer I know already, should I save it?

19?? raleigh 4 speed.

 

[Dave_H]

If you regularly ride around in a skirt looking for Yanks to give you nylons and gum then keep it.

Otherwise.... :roll:

 

[legrandefromage]

If you regularly ride around in a skirt looking for Yanks to give you nylons and gum then keep it.

Otherwise.... :roll:

:shock: you been following me?

 

[Dave_H]

Actually, my gran used to have one very similar to this and she's dead now. The logical conclusion is that those bikes kill.

 

[orange71]

Clean up and sell on Ebay.

 

[JeRkY]

Cleaned up and sold to the London Shoreditch trendy set, it will net you £100.

 

[legrandefromage]

toooooo late - it was still at the tip - now its gone.


Oh well.

 

[barry2017]

Obviously, I've put in an offer to buy it , but speaking conversationally it's not **that** easy to get an old roadster to the condition where they would sell for big money.

On all the old roadsters I've bought I've needed to:

* rebuild the hub
* fit new tyres and tubes
* use a small lorry load of Duraglit,
* pay for a visit to the physio for the tennis elbow I developed applying said duraglit

to be honest after you've put all the effort in £150 doesn't seem like that much.
Great if you like working on old bikes though, and very amusing to ride. Sometimes, it's not about the money, is it?

 

[lewis1641]

Actually, my gran used to have one very similar to this and she's dead now. The logical conclusion is that those bikes kill.

 

[dyna-ti]

That would really look great ,with a shiny new paint job and polished up chrome