Here in the PNW, the used bike market is all over the place. I see $80 mountain bikes and I see touring bikes with rusty parts that the owner won't sell for less than $500. The market for higher-end bikes such Rivendell, Gunnar, etc., seems fairly strong, but I wouldn't be surprised if that changed in the next few years. My guess is that many people these days want disc brakes and hence older bikes with rim brakes are falling out of favor. Also, cycling seems less popular in general.
On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 7:49:54 AM UTC-7, Eric Myers wrote: > > I've been working on selling off my older bikes and there just doesn't > seem to be any buyers out there. Riv content is that these are decent > steel bikes, from the 80s-90s, still comfortable to ride, with new parts > like cables/housing/brake pads, and tuned up so all the remaining older > parts work smoothly and reliably. Most recently I had an early 90s > Specialized Hardrock on Craigslist for a month. When I wasn't even getting > any interest calls at $80 I just gave it away instead of dropping the price > any further. > > Is anyone else experiencing this, or have ideas about what is going on? > Is the economy doing too well for people to buy inexpensive used bikes? Is > there less of a market due to Jump and other bike share companies? At this > point I may just donate some of the bikes to the local Bicycle Kitchen > instead of tuning them up to sell myself. > > Curious in Sacramento, > Eric > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c3a39463-5649-43f4-b273-912532d454b2%40googlegroups.com.
