Ebay and auction watch: let us know if you see something

[nonowt]

lovely paint on the Elswick Lincoln Imp (is that a Harden hub on the back?):

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ELSWICK-...052873?hash=item1cace94489:g:cM4AAOSwMD5bDFOa

£70 ono for this Youngs of Lewisham (pictures aren't the best nor is the spec):

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gents-vi...m=232785021212&_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982

This well spec'd Rotrax in Leeds should clean up nicely £199 start:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rotrax-A...327371?hash=item3d66d6544b:g:8JMAAOSw0Lha-HF9

 

[wonderdog]

Is this not desirable? Several days to run and no bids yet. I saw it while lusting over a CB short wheelbase tandem - the sort of thing we don't see in the Antipodes.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Claud-Bu...196217&hash=item2f1b6d5717:g:ihAAAOSwYBtbB~FK

 

[nonowt]

Is this not desirable? Several days to run and no bids yet. I saw it while lusting over a CB short wheelbase tandem - the sort of thing we don't see in the Antipodes.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Claud-Bu...196217&hash=item2f1b6d5717:g:ihAAAOSwYBtbB~FK

the simple answer is: not especially.

It's a decent solid bike but the market for vintage bikes isn't what it was a few years ago (too much supply or less demand?). I'd say 2 years ago that would have gone for around £150 but now it'll be luckily to go for £100.

 

[midlife]

As above .When Holdsworth took over CB (and Freddy Grubb) they quickly relegated the marque down the pecking order to keep the Holdsworth name at the top.

 

[wonderdog]

As above .When Holdsworth took over CB (and Freddy Grubb) they quickly relegated the marque down the pecking order to keep the Holdsworth name at the top.

Thanks folks ... wasn't aware of the corporate ins and outs. But, back to the SWB tandem, these are pre merger no? Are they a good thing?

 

[biggs682]

the simple answer is: not especially.

It's a decent solid bike but the market for vintage bikes isn't what it was a few years ago (too much supply or less demand?). I'd say 2 years ago that would have gone for around £150 but now it'll be luckily to go for £100.

this is very true indeed

 

[nonowt]

Here's a couple of nice rides I was keeping to myself but I have to accept that I have nowhere to put them (and they're over an hour away).

This 25" Dave Yates is quite something -interestingly this bike gets a mention in this Classic Lightweights article by it's original owner: http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/carpenter-lawson-rem.html . It's in in Bury St Edmunds and ends this evening:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Here's a nice small Orbit Gold Medal in Colchester:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Orbit-Go...053211?hash=item33eb4d719b:g:x2cAAOSwrjZbBwxw

Back to the Clauds: beneath the no longer fashionable "fixie" aesthetics, this looks to me like a pre-Holdsworth Claud frame - maybe an Allrounder? It has lovely axe-head lugs, a SA jockey wheel braze-on on the seat tube and a reasonable refinish:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Reynolds...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

 

[midlife]

Tandems were not a mainstream item and continued in low volume production as before. Iirc the curved seat tube SWB tandem is the genuine article

 

[biggs682]

Here's a couple of nice rides I was keeping to myself but I have to accept that I have nowhere to put them (and they're over an hour away).

This 25" Dave Yates is quite something -interestingly this bike gets a mention in this Classic Lightweights article by it's original owner: http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/carpenter-lawson-rem.html . It's in in Bury St Edmunds and ends this evening:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Custom-Made-Dave-Yates-Road-Bike-Collection-IP33/222986531045?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDXT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Here's a nice small Orbit Gold Medal in Colchester:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Orbit-Go...053211?hash=item33eb4d719b:g:x2cAAOSwrjZbBwxw

Back to the Clauds: beneath the no longer fashionable "fixie" aesthetics, this looks to me like a pre-Holdsworth Claud frame - maybe an Allrounder? It has lovely axe-head lugs, a SA jockey wheel braze-on on the seat tube and a reasonable refinish:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Reynolds-531-vintage-fixed-gear-bike/263717785303?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDXT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

that Claud Butler and the Yates both went in to my watching pile last night , just a shame that Yates is so massive

 

[woodbutcher]

I have been beating myself up over whether to make an offer for this. Someone put me out of my misery and tell me its too expensive and the colour is rubbish

 

[woodbutcher]

I have been beating myself up over whether to make an offer for this. Someone put me out of my misery and tell me its too expensive and the colour is rubbish

Oh l forgot to say asking 350 €

 

[Alan O]

I have been beating myself up over whether to make an offer for this. Someone put me out of my misery and tell me its too expensive and the colour is rubbish

[lie]its too expensive and the colour is rubbish[/lie]

Does that help?

 

[biggs682]

Oh l forgot to say asking 350 €

I like it but pricey in my mind

 

[woodbutcher]

[lie]its too expensive and the colour is rubbish[/lie]

Does that help?

Perfect reply, l live to fight another day ( l hope )

I like it but pricey in my mind

Haven't tried to knock him back on price yet.... if it was blue,red,silver or almost anything other than yellow l would have a go

 

[Illaveago]

Wouldn't it be nice to have loads of money ? I see that there is a nice chrome Sun Snipe .