General: good buys

Lets have a bike related discussion. Whats the best bike related purchase you have ever made? I'll start. I just got a "full cast lugged and silver brazed" track frame and fork made out of a mix of true temper ox and columbus tubing for $310. Its brand new. The frame builder had it hanging from the rafters in his shop and wanted more space so he threw it on craigslist. I was at his shop about an hour later. Its got a few scratches from being in the shop for so long but nothing major.



What about you guys?

I'm building up my Gios Torino Super Record with mostly spec parts for under 500. Retails for 2k+ on ebay and other places :)

http://velospace.org/node/19627

I figure I saved 1500 easy... I've got about 250 miles on it so far and I love it!

I snagged a steel 58cm Giant Allegre with 8spd Campy Veloce Ergopower some years back (I think 2002, it was likely a 2001 model). It was in mint condition, maybe 400 miles on it. A guy was selling it at a garage sale for $400. He said he'd gotten it for triathlons, and then someone told him it was a touring bike (umm, no, it's a nice club-racer). I thought for awhile, and came back an hour later. He was away, but I offered his wife $350 cash on the barrel for it, and she took it.

It was too small for me, but I had a friend in mind --gave it as a gift.

I'll be curious to see how that Sanner builds up, and what you think once it's rolling. Sanner's been advertising on SF Craigslist for about six months; more aggressively now that the local economy's gotten worse. Before that, the only time I'd ever seen his name was last fall. Another Craigslister in San Francisco was listing a Sanner straight-tube road frame that he'd stripped half the paint off of, and kept dropping the price from the $150 he started out asking. I was about to pick up the phone when it got down to $20, but somebody else got to it first.

Posted By: sfbeeI just picked up this ciocc from a guy who was giving it away on craigslist this morning:

http://velospace.org/node/20829

Free seemed like a fairly reasonable price and deal to me :)

What the fuck........ nothing good ever happens to me.

Posted By: sfbeeFree seemed like a fairly reasonable price and deal to me :)

I saw your handle and immediately dissolved into fury: How had a free Ciöcc come up on Craigslist without me noticing it? But I see that you are "sf" in name only, and you're not in the Bay Area, so you're not on my Craigslist. It is okay for people to score freebies that I don't score...just not if the freebie is within driving distance of me. And I've gotten my fair share, sorta.

I have a playing card fetish of sorts. I am not a fixed-speed conversion type of guy; but one build that strikes me as appealing is a Ciöcc frame with a Paul Royal Flush crankset and a set of wheels built on Velocity rims in the suits colorway.

also got a sugino rear disc and a ZIPP rear disc for $50 each off craigslist

Last year:
NOS 1989 Atala mix of campy and suntour $75
1973 Atala Track Frame/Fork un-drilled $100
De Rosa Limited edition full panto Super record $500, The guy i got it from picket it up from good will for $40 Crazy.
Burce Gordon Complete Nuovo Record For $220 on Craigslist

Recently
Colnago C40 full record 10 speed for $1500
Colnago master full nuovo record for $400
Waterford Frame set near Mint For $360
Cinelli Super Corsa Full Dura Ace for $400

I Love Craigslist

Posted By: sfbeeI suppose I should just move there, and start scooping up your deals :)

No! Nooooooo!

I'm actually doing pretty well this week, Craigslistwise. I picked up a set of Mafac Racers (levers included) last night, from a guy I knew visually as a seller at a bunch of local swaps, but had never spoken to. He got a chance to ooh and aah over my Bianchi, and gave me the email address of a guy who'll buy the levers for half what I paid for the full set, assuming I decide to bail on the Mafac levers and use Campy levers with Carlton hoods for a Raleigh International build I'm scheming. Total cost for brakes alone: $15.

Next week, I have to pick up a mid-'90s Record straight seatpost for said Bianchi. Total cost (if picked up): $18.

Actually, my Very Best Deal was also a Craigslist thing. I answered an ad for an FSA SL-K compact carbon crankset for $50, and went over to the seller's apartment in San Francisco to make the buy. I asked the guy why he was selling a $250 crankset for 80% off; he said he'd just built up a Gunnar that he loved, and he was moving across to the East Bay, and was dumping everything that didn't work with the Gunnar. Getting Buddhist or something; stripping himself of all unnecessary possessions...

Once I'd paid for the crankset, he gave me:

• 10-speed Ultegra cassette


• Shimano downtube stops


• Cane Creek headset

Then he asks me: "Do you have a use for an aluminum road frame?", goes into another room, comes out with a 2006 Fuji Roubaix SL (double-butted superlight aluminum, carbon fork), and says:

"Take it. I tried to sell it on Craigslist, nobody bit, I'm moving, I want it gone. Take it away."

So, 60% of a trick new build (frameset + crankset) for fifty bucks. Once I got $35 for the cassette (Ich bin ein Campy guy), $15 out of pocket.

Although, 18 months later, the frameset is still giving me accusing looks from the rack for not finishing up the build :-( I'm still working out the Nokon cabling.

are we flexin nuts and wallets? i built my entire francois de tout lejeune for under $300

Posted By: schrodingerscatYou guys should move up to Canada. Toronto does not understand the concept of a roadbike as a profitable trend at ALL. Some guy is selling new 2008 roadbike and hybrid devinci frames for 65 bucks. brand new.

And I'm guessing that's 65 bucks Canadian, which converts to $11.47 plus a bus transfer plus four lint-coated pieces of Bazooka Joe bubblegum in the US.

Seriously, it's an interesting country you have up there ;-)

Are we talking about a bricks-and-mortar retailer, an online retailer, a Craigslist/eBay guy? Will he ship south?

600 for a almost mint cond. 1999 litespeed ultimate frame chris king nothread set and reynolds uzo pro fork and profile stem oh and the frame was made by the founder of litespeed and now the pres. of lynsky performance. all on craigslist

01' bianchi pista with killer setup = 100 dollars.

One of my good buys was a Scott Scale 20 carbon mtb frame, fox f80 fork, xt cranks, xtr spd pedals. All that for $550

Another was my Specialized S-works mtb, I got it as a full bike off ebay. The frame is a 2008 frame, carbon, it came with full sram xo carbon, bontrager race lite wheels, xt cranks, and pedals. I paid $1,200 for that, heck of a deal if you ask me.

james: trade me your specialized, I'll give you my spicer

Bullocks. After this MTB season look me up if you want to talk about it

Nothing a short seatpost and stem can't fix

I have a motorcycle related one. Picked up a 78 Honda CB125s for 350 bucks. The guy said it did not run. I spent 4 hours cleaning to carb and now it runs beautifully.

I never find good bike stuff......

I almost picked up a complete super record equipped 1989 coppi that pooped up on craigslist here for 185 bucks the other day.

The frame was way too small for me though (52, I ride 60+), and it was an hour away so I let it go. Hopefully it found a good home

i got my best deals at 2nd hand-market from guys who don´t know what they sell... some brooks saddles for less than 10€, a brand new dolphin saddle for 1,50€, brand new kinesis frame for 50€, spd-pedals with new shoes in my size for 10€... i also got a nos 165mm(!) kooka crank at ebay for 50€...

i got some shoes for $5 marked down from $85 at urbz today

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