This is insane!!!!
04-04-10, 09:46 PM
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This is insane!!!!
This has got to be one of the most crazy ebay ads I have seen.
1980s Huffy Olympian
1980s Huffy Olympian
04-04-10, 10:17 PM
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Yes, that bike is pretty funny
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04-04-10, 10:18 PM
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Huffy, AMF, Columbia, and the other American "bicycle" companies of that ilk were in the business of making "Bike Like Objects." Nothing they did surprises me, they pretty much banked on the idea that they were selling to poseurs that were never going to use their products.
04-04-10, 10:31 PM
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I have searched all over the net and have not found anything like it.
Apparently he thinks it's worth more than the 2009 Trek Madone 5.2 he sold the other day, hehe.
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What is more amusing is that the seller's ad copy doesn't have any noticeable misrepresentations of the bike ("It was ridden in the Olympics!" comes to mind), the photos are decent, and - for a Huffy - it'd be a fun nonsense bike to have around. An ideal, el-cheapo Ashtabula-BB fixed-gear candidate.
The only ridiculous part of it is the BIN. I have a sneaking suspicion that he knows quite well that it isn't worth much at all, and has put out a little bait for any Ultimate Suckers™ that happen to come along.
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The only ridiculous part of it is the BIN. I have a sneaking suspicion that he knows quite well that it isn't worth much at all, and has put out a little bait for any Ultimate Suckers™ that happen to come along.
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I doubt the seller is such a fool. If someone pays the buy-it-now price, he'll be smiling for a week. If he sells it at all, he'll have his wife off his back. And he's already got a bidder! But it ain't me, babe.
04-05-10, 06:12 AM
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Yeah, this guy is ok in my book...you can bid anything you want for this bike. The BIN is just a ceiling. Not much different than many people are doing with real estate right now. :>)
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I remember seeing those TT replica bikes in K-Mart I think it was and wondering "WTF were they thinking?"
Here is some pictures of the real deal and a interesting article.
https://www.firstflightbikes.com/Shop...es/Olympic.htm
04-05-10, 07:20 AM
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that bike is amazing!
i would never have dreamed!! first licensing one brand over the other a Huffy "raleigh USA" but a gas pipe TT bike complete with disc rear wheel!!!!!!!!!
you have to admit its a rare bike though, not $3500 rare, not $350 rare, but I would pay $35 as it would be the ultimate loaner bike HAHA
i would never have dreamed!! first licensing one brand over the other a Huffy "raleigh USA" but a gas pipe TT bike complete with disc rear wheel!!!!!!!!!
you have to admit its a rare bike though, not $3500 rare, not $350 rare, but I would pay $35 as it would be the ultimate loaner bike HAHA
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Apples and oranges, for a number of reasons. In any case there's no "probably" about it - one of the actual Olympic Huffy's would very likely not sell for $3500, and certainly not much more than that if it did. I bought one of the Murray-Serottas (pantographed) made for the '84 Olympics for a fraction of that a couple of years ago.
04-05-10, 08:59 AM
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Don't we have something better, nicer, or more uplifting to talk about? Stuff like this belongs in the Wacky World of Craigslist and eBay ads; heck, the Numbskull of the Day sticky did a pretty good job to keep multiple "look at this moron!" threads nice and concentrated.
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04-05-10, 09:23 AM
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I remember those! I was already in my 20s and riding nice bikes but some of those department store 10 speeds are cool in a weird nostalgic sort of way. If I found one for less than 50$ I'd buy it.
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