The "How much?" or "You're havin' a giraffe!" thread

[carpenter]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Merc-Bro...2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

Merc = worthless Neobike copy after Brompton foolishly lent them the drawings. I thought Brompton had had them all crushed by now!

24 bids and 8 bidders

 

[rogerzilla]

There's one born every minute. The seller isn't being really dishonest (except for the Brompton decal on the frame) but it's rather oversold

 

[DCLane]

Asking £250 for a children's shopping bike: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233626114992

 

[carpenter]

May be something valuable in the bag

 

[southcoast]

May be something valuable in the bag

The sellers marbles?

 

[Hover Fly]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/22434222...:OysAAOSw~kRgHuFC&LH_ItemCondition=4&LH_All=1

 

[DCLane]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224342225706?hash=item343bd6b32a:g:OysAAOSw~kRgHuFC&LH_ItemCondition=4&LH_All=1

Given I had to pay £20 for a small Campag screw, that was only for 10 speed Campag Record, that price doesn't surprise me

 

[fossyant]

Good god

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39356219...R3yCAyQ0WnICuhG%2BdK|ampid:PL_CLK|clp:2047675

25 years old, scruffy, and only 2/3rds of what I paid for mine all those years ago.

 

[FrankCrank]

Blimey, a folding bike that costs more than a Brommie

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/384410126525?hash=item5980a108bd:g:0k4AAOSwDNZhTNed

 

[Blue Hills]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26532746...,osub=osub,crd=crd,segname=segname,chnl=mkcid

 

[Blue Hills]

Blimey, a folding bike that costs more than a Brommie

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/384410126525?hash=item5980a108bd:g:0k4AAOSwDNZhTNed

that was turned into a fashion item by those sleek italians and probably cost less:

more info:

https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1983-trussardi-folding-parabike-city-bike/

I saw one once in an italian bike shop that used to frequently wrangle with my wobbly dahon sports folder.

 

[DCLane]

This has been on sale on/off all summer, always listed twice along with other over-priced bikes the seller has. Currently with a start price of £195 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284459273499

Mine, which was much nicer with 21 gears and a better frame, cost me £20.

 

[Chris S]

that was turned into a fashion item by those sleek italians and probably cost less:

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more info:

https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1983-trussardi-folding-parabike-city-bike/

I saw one once in an italian bike shop that used to frequently wrangle with my wobbly dahon sports folder.

"There was that Italian who got so good at fashion they had to shoot him ..."

 

[Blue Hills]

"There was that Italian who got so good at fashion they had to shoot him ..."

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Lost me there chris.
A benito reference?

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

This has been on sale on/off all summer, always listed twice along with other over-priced bikes the seller has. Currently with a start price of £195 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284459273499

Mine, which was much nicer with 21 gears and a better frame, cost me £20.

I'll see you and raise you an 18 speed 501 frame version for a Tenner!
Great general purpose bikes though Pioneers are, there is nothing remotely exotic about them, especially the plain gauge 18-23 hi-tensile flavour ones.
To put it in perspective, the most basic spec Pioneers from the early 90's cost around the modern day equivalent of about £300-350, and the poshest ones about another two hundred quid on top of that. Some of these sellers are trying to sell a used bike with 30 years of wear & tear, for pretty much what they cost new. Steel Pioneers aren't even rare bikes, they must have made several hundred thousand if not a million of them over the family's production life!