Originally Posted by cpach

So that's a totally nice custom off road touring rig build, but realistically the market doesn't really care about it. Your value of knowledge for speccing the build really only has value on the market if you have an established reputation with prospective clients--if they can really appreciate the specific details for the spec they will probably want to choose the build details themselves.

You also really need liability insurance if you're basically operating as a business as a bicycle mechanic.

Basically your idea of building custom touring bikes for profit but without a business license, liability insurance, and accounts with component distributors is incredibly bad.

I'm a professional mechanic so I'm not as expert at used prices, on that bike, in excellent condition, I'd probably expect to be able to sell it relatively easily around $2000 without non-bike accessories. Maybe $2500.

Realistically it's difficult for actual bicycle businesses to compete with prebuilt bikes with custom builds because manufacturers purchase components at much lower costs than distributors. Prebuilts are pretty universally a much better value, so custom is really the realm of the wealthy or those who have very specific wants.

If you're selling the bike I might try listing it in specialist forums relating to bikepacking, or at least eBay. You want customers who are aware of how sweet, say, those SP hubs are. Craigslist isn't really a specialist market.