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eBay prices on the rise, good time to sell old junk?
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Re: eBay prices on the rise, good time to sell old junk?
Postby rangersac » Sun Apr 27, 2014 9:47 pm
Centurion
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Some nice lugwork
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Postby munga » Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:22 pm
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Postby HappyHumber » Mon Apr 28, 2014 1:51 pm
slidetaker wrote:Hillman
Dubious provenance aside - those stickers just look a little bit too new, I actually quite like that colour scheme. It's even my size. But otherwise, yes... I do agree; way overpriced.
It does raise a question I've never thought about... strictly speaking on a forward sloping TT, you should still measure it as horizontal and Effective, surely. Wonder how the seller has done it? Or is it even sloping.... is it just the way frame is sitting, sans wheels.
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Re: eBay prices on the rise, good time to sell old junk?
Postby geoff_tewierik » Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:12 pm
munga wrote:you all know i'm selling my dawes galaxy, right? 52 x 56. 531. 27". $300.
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Passed a Dawes on the Southbank boardwalk outside GOMA on my way home tonight.
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Re: eBay prices on the rise, good time to sell old junk?
Postby Rob74 » Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:17 pm
..appears to part out & fixes some
Hillman
For those with coin..might be worth watching this & future listings..
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Postby WyvernRH » Wed Apr 30, 2014 12:56 pm
Umm, not sure what the comment means

but...
I have seen this bike in the flesh at a Tweed Run in Newcastle. Iain has basically taken an classic real (ie pre-Raleigh) Carlton frame, had it chromed and painted and assembled it with tastefully chosen (IMHO) modern-ish parts.
Looks very nice, price is possibly a bit on the rich side for me tho'
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Postby cray- » Wed Apr 30, 2014 1:01 pm
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Postby HappyHumber » Wed Apr 30, 2014 2:48 pm
cray- wrote:Lo-pro in Perth? Unknown frame, not going to identify it with one poor photo. Asking price seems a bit steep considering but maybe others can see something to justify? http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/south-pe ... 1045355417
Can't be too bad tubing, I guess.. those Miche Supertype posts despite being pretty heavy themselves I've only seen available in 27.0 & 27.2.
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Postby cray- » Wed Apr 30, 2014 5:18 pm
HappyHumber wrote:Can't be too bad tubing, I guess.. those Miche Supertype posts despite being pretty heavy themselves I've only seen available in 27.0 & 27.2.
Fair enough, that is the kind of detective work I knew others could provide. Obviously lo-pro's are more likely to have been built for competition and high-end use (don't think K-mart were selling any back in the day =] ), it's just a shame someone has stripped it of it's heritage to create another boring Fakenago. And I just realised it is a proper track frame, not a road conversion so there's that. Too rich for me, it's a shame we'll probably never know more.
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Postby HappyHumber » Wed Apr 30, 2014 5:30 pm
That did cross my mind also.cray- wrote:Obviously lo-pro's are more likely to have been built for competition and high-end use (don't think K-mart were selling any back in the day =]
Not that I'm really in the market, but I would be dubious as to how any TT measurements are taken by sellers on these forward sloping TTs for these style of bikes, per my comment a few post back in this thread.
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Re: eBay prices on the rise, good time to sell old junk?
Postby LugNut » Thu May 01, 2014 12:44 am
Eclipse 531 touring bike, vey overpriced. I can't help being irrationally annoyed that the bicycle was bought in Melbourne and is being sold in Queensland

Don't know about the bike, but that paint!
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Postby frailer5 » Thu May 01, 2014 6:56 am
LugNut wrote:Eclipse 531 touring bike[/url], vey overpriced. I can't help being irrationally annoyed that the bicycle was bought in Melbourne and is being sold in QueenslandBring it back when you're done![/url]
Yep, nice bike. It hasn't strayed too far… only to hippy-land northern NSW.



And you notice it's a 'pushbike'. Maybe he didn't ride it there after all.
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Postby Discodan » Thu May 01, 2014 9:22 am
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Postby cray- » Thu May 01, 2014 10:53 am
Velo13 wrote:I just rebuilt a pair of these that I built up originally way back in about '93. They'd had a couple of owners since then.
http://xlr8wheels.com.au/what-do-sentim ... 0-rebuild/
That was a very interesting read, thanks for posting, look forward to going through the blog archives now.
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Postby Velo13 » Thu May 01, 2014 12:07 pm
cray- wrote:Velo13 wrote:I just rebuilt a pair of these that I built up originally way back in about '93. They'd had a couple of owners since then.
http://xlr8wheels.com.au/what-do-sentim ... 0-rebuild/
That was a very interesting read, thanks for posting, look forward to going through the blog archives now.
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