eBay and Craigslist finds

Really cool, but this thread isn't meant for advertising one's own sales. I'd advise removing the ebay add and putting it up for sale in LFGSS classifieds

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It was a joke ! Do you think I'd ask how tall you needed to be to ride my own bike ;-)

Have a go at johndull - he needs a pep talk !

So not yours? OK!

Have a go at johndull - he needs a pep talk !

At least he didn't write 'grab a bargain' at the end of the description. I don't know why, but I've seen this on almost every single sale recently, and it's driving me up the walls. Irrational, maybe, but I can't help it.

Apologies! It's coming off ebay this evening and will be posted in the classifieds here soon.

Ken Ryall.

Frame looks rather good and reading about Ryall online he used various frame builder's in his time (Holdsworth & Gillott) and this one would appear to be a Gillott.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F273536112748

@nbrc10 on this forum had this to say about Ryall

I knew Ken Ryall quite well and I've had a number of Ryalls and have seen many more. His best frames had a transfer showing a stopwatch face with the Ryall script across it and his Hounslow shop address around it.

Ken's bikes had two distinct styles of lettering on the down tube. First, the block cap one either in black or white with an outline in the opposite colour. Second, a very fine and elegant signature script in black, white or gold with the bottom tail of the 'K ' or 'R' (can't remember which) sweeping right round the signature. I believe that this was Ken's own signature. I've owned Ryalls with both these styles. It would be quite easy to find Ryall bikes with these styles for a reference if you wanted as very many members of both the Twickenham CC and the Middlesex Wheelers rode them and I would think many still own them if only as winter bikes now. Make contact though the websites of these clubs. Anyway if you can get hold of a sample, even to borrow, it's easy to replicate accurately in this digital age.

Ken had built a number of frames himself earlier in his career but later used a number of frame builders to produce them to his specification. Holdsworth and Gillott were certainly two he used especially earlier on. Later on he also had frames built by Jack Hearne, whose workshop was near to Slough station. Jack was an exceptional builder and is now very underrated, he also built all the top end Roy Thame frames (even though Roy was manager at Holdsworth!). The builder that built two of my '70s Ryalls was Stan Pike. He was one of the very best builders ever and built many a record breaker's frame.

Ken loved innovation and new products and was the sole importer of Raxar clothing from Belgium and of Dordoigne tubulars from France (these were of exceptional quality). It was a treat going into his shop when he'd a new, different product just in. I well remember the occasions of him enthusiastically showing me Concor saddles and Mafac Promotion brake levers. All the advice he gave me and many others was sound and rooted in real experience and knowledge.

There was a guy named Geoff who worked full time in his shop, he was a chain smoker - in a bike shop!!

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trevor-Jarvis-Touring-bike/273530839437?hash=item3fafb5618d:g:E6YAAOSwKO5bzgUU:rk:1:pf:0

Nice. What's the weird thing wrapped round the top tube?

Kashimax top tube protector.

GT Palomar £55 bin Essex ...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PALOMAR-GT-Gents-Bike-PRICE-REDUCED/323522796822?hash=item4b53761d16:g:nyAAAOSwu3db1jc~

GT Peace SS 26" Frame...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GT-Peace-Single-Speed-MTB-Frame/302937440701?

Genuine NOS Cinelli MTBs??

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cinelli-Argento-Vivo-Deore-LX-1993-NOS-Rare-MTB-Mountain/202349960709?hash=item2f1cff5e05:g:phMAAOSwIrVbL9n8:rk:50:pf:0

^^ Never seen or heard of an aluminium framed Argentovivo before, but that's not to say that they aren't genuine. They are however, quite a lot different from the real steel one that I have.

choc n lime anyone 🤮

The mismatch of the frame green vs the rim/hub green is making me go green myself. Let's not mention the grips that are yet another shade.

Those rims need to be burnt and ground into the dust of the earth.

Those rims need to be burnt

The good old "kill it with fire". However, for this particular case I'd recommend the more radical approach:

So good!

I see some Paul in this one.

interesting Columbus spirit, lugged custom frameset

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Custom-Handmade-Vendetta-Cycles-Frameset/202485742475?hash=item2f25173b8b:g:i7gAAOSwD11bc-Kp

@ a bike shop in Paris: https://www.instagram.com/p/BprQ1cMFjdd/

Are these actually worth anything? I've got a Palomar that I adore, but I assumed it was worthless

Looks like one in good condition isn’t worth £55.

Any bicycle that is useable is worth something - it just depends where and to whom. But in places like Cambridge for example (and probably others), the prices for used bicycles spike at the beginning of every academic year. You could definitely sell that for £50 to someone if it actually works.