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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: SAFRANEV6RXE on December 31, 2014, 09:01 AM
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Hi folks,
I,ve spotted this GT for sale on E-bay,looks stunning BUT i fell its a tad expensive,its been through 3 times before and hasn,t reached £500 what do you all think,whats right or wrong with it???
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Old-School-Bmx-/261708411126?pt=UK_Collectables_Bicycle_RL&hash=item3cef0970f6
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This is its current listing
Previous listing do show other pics of it,but the description is lacking detail,but the bike looks stunning!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Old-School-Bmx-/261718644030?pt=UK_Collectables_Bicycle_RL&hash=item3cefa5953e
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Is this your bike?
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Nope not mine,but it does look stunning i think.
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EBay tends to show the true value of an item in the main, there are exceptions.
At £500 he should have snapped their hand off.
Why? Just look at the components!
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EBay tends to show the true value of an item in the main, there are exceptions.
At £500 he should have snapped their hand off.
Why? Just look at the components!
Nick, the guy has a buy it now for £950 and a reserve of £950. Even though the bids reached £500, it still can't be bought until you hit the magical £950 :D
And that is no £950 bike IMO :-\ Most of the parts are cheap parts and available everywhere :)
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Fully aware of that Terry but he can always contact that bidder out with the sale. I just think £500 is a fair price. He's got to be smoking something if he seriously thinks it's worth almost a grand.
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Meh bike imo, nice frame and forks, everything else is crap.
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This is why i need to ask,i know nothing about these bikes and wanted some tips about this one.
He won,t take under £900 posted!
Is it really full of crap parts,postage is expensive aswell.....
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This is why i need to ask,i know nothing about these bikes and wanted some tips about this one.
He won,t take under £900 posted!
Is it really full of crap parts,postage is expensive aswell.....
If you have £900+ to spend on a GT performer you could do a lot better than that bike. Frame and forks are the only bits I would want, the rest of it I would bin and start again.
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Frame and forks are the only bits I would want, the rest of it I would bin and start again.
+1 :daumenhoch:
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He has used parts 'from all over the world'.
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What about this one?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GT-PRO-PERFORMER-80s-Old-School-BMX-/221647877436?pt=UK_Collectables_Bicycle_RL&hash=item339b3e353c
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What about this one?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GT-PRO-PERFORMER-80s-Old-School-BMX-/221647877436?pt=UK_Collectables_Bicycle_RL&hash=item339b3e353c
Not worth 585. Maybe 185.
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That's probably the worst 85 rep I've ever seen!
It's not even an 85!
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That's probably the worst 85 rep I've ever seen!
It's not even an 85!
It was originally up for £950. Joke!
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I wouldn't swear on it, but the orange GT is looks like an 86 ;) Could be a very late 85 though.
The other one is an 87-88, they don't seem to go for much. Gotta look for an 84 if you want rare, or rare as a Performer could get. :)
Some people take a punt on ebay, you never know when a old bloke with a nostalgia thing might just not be arsed to build a bike themselves, take the Hutch trickstar that's been on ebay loads at £8.5k :P
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Some people take a punt on ebay, you never know when a old bloke with a nostalgia thing might just not be arsed to build a bike themselves, take the Hutch trickstar that's been on ebay loads at £8.5k :P
I hope no one is stupid enough to buy that! It is nice but not 8.5k nice!! and look at the state of the pedal cages on it ::)
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Some people take a punt on ebay, you never know when a old bloke with a nostalgia thing might just not be arsed to build a bike themselves, take the Hutch trickstar that's been on ebay loads at £8.5k :P
I hope no one is stupid enough to buy that! It is nice but not 8.5k nice!! and look at the state of the pedal cages on it ::)
That Hutch is very nice, tasty build for sure, but 8.5k is crazy money :D Some of the prices on ebay.com these days seem a bit out there, either that or the market has changed since I last bought anything ???
When you factor in the customs that usually get slapped on, becomes a bit rich :-[
Might sell my MAster on .com instead of UK :)
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I know what you mean....was thinking that myself that have seen some mad u.s prices recently. More of a crack problem there I reckon!! seen stuff like a tatty pair of skyway axle extenders for $60 when nos ones on same page for $20 WTF?? nearly sent him a message to ask what he was smoking! There is loads more stuff over there and prices have traditionally been more favourable even when you factor customs charges in..... ::)
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I know what you mean....was thinking that myself that have seen some mad u.s prices recently. More of a crack problem there I reckon!! seen stuff like a tatty pair of skyway axle extenders for $60 when nos ones on same page for $20 WTF?? nearly sent him a message to ask what he was smoking! There is loads more stuff over there and prices have traditionally been more favourable even when you factor customs charges in..... ::)
Your right chap, most of my frames are from the US, and were defo less expensive than the UK, even with customs charges. But I'm talking 10 years or so ago. These days the US bargains seem few and fair between sadly. :( Nearly bid on that RL20II radberry but forgot about end of auction tonight, good price £490 ::) How's yours doing, lovely build that.
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I know what you mean....was thinking that myself that have seen some mad u.s prices recently. More of a crack problem there I reckon!! seen stuff like a tatty pair of skyway axle extenders for $60 when nos ones on same page for $20 WTF?? nearly sent him a message to ask what he was smoking! There is loads more stuff over there and prices have traditionally been more favourable even when you factor customs charges in..... ::)
Your right chap, most of my frames are from the US, and were defo less expensive than the UK, even with customs charges. But I'm talking 10 years or so ago. These days the US bargains seem few and fair between sadly. :( Nearly bid on that RL20II radberry but forgot about end of auction tonight, good price £490 ::) How's yours doing, lovely build that.
The Rl-20? it's gone! went on ebay for silly money! now rebuilding my old bike, which I should never of sold! run of the mill stuff still cheaper but the good stuff seems worse than here now!!
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I know what you mean....was thinking that myself that have seen some mad u.s prices recently. More of a crack problem there I reckon!! seen stuff like a tatty pair of skyway axle extenders for $60 when nos ones on same page for $20 WTF?? nearly sent him a message to ask what he was smoking! There is loads more stuff over there and prices have traditionally been more favourable even when you factor customs charges in..... ::)
Your right chap, most of my frames are from the US, and were defo less expensive than the UK, even with customs charges. But I'm talking 10 years or so ago. These days the US bargains seem few and fair between sadly. :( Nearly bid on that RL20II radberry but forgot about end of auction tonight, good price £490 ::) How's yours doing, lovely build that.
The Rl-20? it's gone! went on ebay for silly money! now rebuilding my old bike, which I should never of sold! run of the mill stuff still cheaper but the good stuff seems worse than here now!!
You've sold the RL20 already ??? did you split? Silly money good or bad? I've got one as well I might have to sell along with my 84 Master :P