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04-08-20, 10:13 AM
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Brand-new, Made in France, all stainless steel!
https://sacramento.craigslist.org/bi...099692380.html
https://sacramento.craigslist.org/bi...099692380.html
04-08-20, 10:17 AM
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Made in Remulac, a small town in France.
04-08-20, 10:18 AM
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04-09-20, 06:30 AM
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04-09-20, 07:08 AM
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04-09-20, 01:40 PM
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3 beautiful Schwann:
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bik...100848319.html
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bik...100848319.html
04-09-20, 02:46 PM
1/2 as far in 2x the time
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Only sixy dollah frame. oh and 30 to ship. Nice stamped dropouts. Smashed head badge. Rear fork cold set to... looks like 3mm?
Someone snap up this bargain!
Pretty sure that seat post will slide right out. Easy access brake mount.
Someone snap up this bargain!
Pretty sure that seat post will slide right out. Easy access brake mount.
04-09-20, 05:05 PM
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3 beautiful Schwann:
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bik...100848319.html
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bik...100848319.html
geez, early 70s, we'd get bikes like that from the thrift store for like $20 or $30, haul them up Mt Tam, and if we were lucky, get a few downhill runs before we'd wreck them. cheap thrills! I did hate those New Departure inch-pinch coaster brakes, they'd get so hot they'd smoke, then seize up.
04-09-20, 07:40 PM
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As if a death fork wasn't enough to worry about. This viscount is for those who want live on the edge 😬
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...2071512209752/
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...2071512209752/
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04-09-20, 07:45 PM
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Not a Death Fork..
04-09-20, 09:36 PM
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04-10-20, 06:42 AM
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04-10-20, 08:28 AM
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Thanks for clarifying. For better or worse, I just always assume viscount = death fork unless told otherwise.
But wow, the more I look at this the worse it gets. There is a front derailleur mounted on the bottom bracket/stem combo. If that chain drops you're likely to lose at least a few teeth!
But wow, the more I look at this the worse it gets. There is a front derailleur mounted on the bottom bracket/stem combo. If that chain drops you're likely to lose at least a few teeth!
04-10-20, 09:26 AM
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As if a death fork wasn't enough to worry about. This viscount is for those who want live on the edge 😬
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...2071512209752/
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...2071512209752/
04-10-20, 10:29 AM
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Looks like a widowmaker to me.
04-10-20, 11:04 AM
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04-10-20, 02:58 PM
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I guess this is a disturbing new trend on Craigslist, and I did flag the ad. But what a cutie!
04-10-20, 04:17 PM
...addicted...
Every so often a bike flipper has to move. This was posted two days ago and this afternoon apparently everything left went to scrap because he's moving tomorrow. Hope someone was on the ball and willing to risk venturing out, because I wasn't about to drop everything to go climb through bike piles.
https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/...105224852.html
https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/...105224852.html
04-10-20, 04:23 PM
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Every so often a bike flipper has to move. This was posted two days ago and this afternoon apparently everything left went to scrap because he's moving tomorrow. Hope someone was on the ball and willing to risk venturing out, because I wasn't about to drop everything to go climb through bike piles.
https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/...105224852.html
https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/...105224852.html
04-10-20, 04:30 PM
...addicted...
I see a Peugeot UO8 with pump, the Shogun isn't bad, and there's potential for other good bits, just too hard to tell from seller photos. One of the other photos has a rockhopper, hard rock, and 'dale road frame, and the mid-grade fuji with barcons looks salvagable.
But... not right now, and it's apparently too late anyway
But... not right now, and it's apparently too late anyway
04-10-20, 04:37 PM
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I see a Peugeot UO8 with pump, the Shogun isn't bad, and there's potential for other good bits, just too hard to tell from seller photos. One of the other photos has a rockhopper, hard rock, and 'dale road frame, and the mid-grade fuji with barcons looks salvagable.
But... not right now, and it's apparently too late anyway
But... not right now, and it's apparently too late anyway
04-10-20, 04:50 PM
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That Fuji is a S12S LTD...
04-10-20, 05:30 PM
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With barcons that would be worth the price of admission.
Blue bike-boom bike in pic 3 appears to have Suntour power shifters. A few other honorable mentions, a couple Nishikis, a Trek 800, a second C'dale, and my favorite stoopid idea for a brand/model -- Giant Butte.
Blue bike-boom bike in pic 3 appears to have Suntour power shifters. A few other honorable mentions, a couple Nishikis, a Trek 800, a second C'dale, and my favorite stoopid idea for a brand/model -- Giant Butte.
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04-10-20, 07:23 PM
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It Is Upside Down, Dumbass
Fuji bike for parts
Wilmington, NC · 4 hours ago ·
$50Can't figure out what's wrong with it, only $50 OBO
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...8309936055217/
(Hmmmm. I so want write the poster: "Try turning it over?")
Wilmington, NC · 4 hours ago ·
$50Can't figure out what's wrong with it, only $50 OBO
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...8309936055217/
(Hmmmm. I so want write the poster: "Try turning it over?")
04-10-20, 07:27 PM
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Old Firenze with a "lightweight alloy frame". These bikes were given away by "TV Lenny", aka Crazy Lenny, with every console color TV (or whatever) he sold in his appliance chain. So offered because the bikes weren't safe enough to _sell_ legally in the US (but it was perfectly legal to _give_ them away). The absolutely delicious irony -- this seller says he's selling this BSO because he bought an E-Bike -- from the very same Crazy Lenny, who came out of retirement to open an e-bike business.
https://madison.craigslist.org/bik/d...106537502.html
https://madison.craigslist.org/bik/d...106537502.html
Like New 12 speed Men's Touring Bike - $75 (Madison East)
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