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Is the BMX OS bubble beginning to burst or are people worried about spending?
perry:
"Most of us on here only do it for the hobby not for the profit."
thats certainly what ive found :4_17_5:
i dont want people to think im against anone selling anything , after all were bmxers , we have a habit of " ooooh thats nice i want one of those " and then selling it shortly after for somethin else that catches the eye ;D
virtualmeuk:
From a newbies point of view...... I was new to all this OS BMX before xmas and was trying to relive my childhood through my old bike that i uncovered in the garage at my folks house. I could'nt beleive the prices stuff was fetching so thought it was worth doing up. Now i have done it i have no more money and no more parts to buy so will only change small parts as and when i get cash or a better upgrade. For me i have seen a flurry recently of stupid prices on bits and its just to much for me to justify paying the prices so am using lower spec parts on another build i am doing to get it finished. I think that people who are new to this OS BMX get a shock at the prices and are put off a bit by them. I Have only been able to justify my spending as i have owned the bike from new and therefore has a big chunk of nostalga attached to it. I wouldnt spend the kind of silly money on a bits for a normal OS build that i had no connection with so i have therefore stopped buying bits till i can find some bargains.
I am sure that the prices like anything will peak and then drop for a while and slowly creep back up over time. They cannot keep going up as it is getting way out of most 'normal' peoples reach at the moment and untill prices start to fall into the reach of 'normal' income people i think it will stay a bit stale. Once people start to see prices within there reach i think the market will pick up and be back where they are now in a few months.
I think the biggest problem is that if somone sells a set of say mx1000's for a silly price to somone who has more money than sence and is desperate for them to finish a build or to furnish a childhood dream then everyone thinks that there mx1000's are instantly worth that amount of money or even a bit more. Trouble is that not everyone is prepared to pay sill prices for stuff.
At the end of the day there must be a 'Ceiling' price for say a set of MX 1000's that no one in there right mind will pay any more for and i think that we are about there at the moment.
Swivel:
Definately agree with you here Nick. People are hording the good stuff that's for sure and nothing cheap enough and minty ever comes up on the for sale section anymore, either it's very used or the same NOS stuff i.e. Seat clamps/901's etc...
Stuff is definately getting harder to source now, I've been requesting a freestyle stem for about 3 weeks on the wanted bit and still no luck getting a minty one... people just ain't parting with the good stuff anymore >:(
I have a few unfinished bikes and would love to see them done and its getting harder and harder to get the parts now without spending a fortune and I really cannot justify that to myself anymore, i'd much rather put the money towards a holiday for me and the wife instead of buying two sets of MX1000's! Just ticks me off that something so readily available like a freestyle stem, which 6 months ago would have been very easy to find, now takes weeks and weeks and even then they are used and need work. This old school game is getting very tough! :)
--- Quote from: Munners on March 19, 2008, 11:33 AM ---I just think people are keeping their stuff at the mo. There's hardly ever any 'really' nice bits and bobs that are in the for sale section these days. Always the same sort of gear ie DC 901's etc.
I also think that Redline f+f's are a bad seller. I think that GT's are too. Not sure why? :uglystupid2:
400's were a 'wanted' item about 2 months ago as a few people had Laserlite builds and they needed them. Maybe they have them now?
If there was a GEN 1, TA, Kuwi Laserlite, Harry Leary, Ripper, Quad etc up for sale on here they would sell instantly.
--- End quote ---
jimwise68:
I definitely am not in it for the money. I enjoy sourcing the parts and building the bikes that I used to love when I was younger and some that have caught my eye this time round.
But been watching ebay and sale stuff on here and it is either not selling or selling at a far reduced rate to what it was a few months back.
i know at this time of year it slows down but it seems to have gone a bit beyond that.
Fair play that a TA or Gen 1 will always demand a premium but have seen rare stems and even MX1000s go for a ridiculously cheap price. its obviously good that prices have come down some degree. But just wondered the reasons behind it.
I personally was thinking that it was simply because of the economic climate being a bit unstable.
OrgasmDonor:
ive gone off the boil for os stuff n moved onto midschool stuff as its a whole new world to me basically and i like to ride my bikes into the ground. the prices did hit a high recently i reckon and now peeps want top dollar for everything, but those peaks are peaks so when the prices fall no one seems to want to part with stuff, which is understandable, hense no real bargains anymore. also the want for the big gun bikes, TA's n SE's etc has deemed GT's and the like as undesirable, there are loads n loads of underated frames out there, all victims of fashion at the mo, IMO
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