For Sale: Single speed bike

for someone who does not know much about bikes you seem to sell a lot. For example :

I may just be being suspicious but how come u have soooo many bikes?

Your name is 'Stem'? 'Thomson Stem?'
You shouldn't have to explain yourself - this is rubbish.
Bung it on gumtree aswell mate (I would ride the shit out of that bike + different wheels in the winter)

• have got a black radial laced MTB front going cheap for the buyer if they want.
  

How weird is that good taste you have there.

for someone who does not know much about bikes you seem to sell a lot. For example :

I may just be being suspicious but how come u have soooo many bikes?

Beacause I can YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE.

I get out a lot thank you.

hey KC, can we get a size?
and I'll take just the frame?

If you're splitting, I'd be interested in the stem.

Hi it's a large 19'' BBto toptube I would prefer an xl frame so if i don't sell as a whole I will break it down,and rebuild it onto a xl frame.

KINGCUTTER, looks like people get suspicious cause you say it's your hobby, yet strangely you seem to know nothing about the bike components, the correct sizing info ( medium, large, xl- these are relative terms. What is this exactly in cm or inch? ) instead describing them with adjectives like "stunning" that say nothing of the actual quality of the bike.

Usually the buyers themselves can judge whether a bike indeed is nice or not, no need to treat forum members like sheep by giving these flowery adjectives and thinking they will swallow the bait based on "perfect chain tension" and no real details of the item. It's a bike geek forum.

Maybe take a look at the info that other sellers include in their posts for guidance

This guy is a cunt. Don't know what he is pulling but it ain't right. Just smells wrong! Like a fanny that hasn't been washed. WRONG I tells ya!

Sounds stolen and looks fucking shite.

In light of my recent post I don't even think I will try and say what type of single speed or who might ride it but,it's for sale and has some nice kit on it,ie THOMSON stem,THOMSON seat post and a brand new single speed truativ crank with new BB new headset and brand new brakes chain tension is perfect running 33/18 nice respray and I think it,s not a bad looking bike.But there again what do I know

190quid.

what is your problem people!? i wouldn't pay more than 200quid for that bike, so its priced well. give the guy a fucking break, if he nicked it he wouldn't have the forsight to post the frame build and respray in the current projects, (that would be genius though) it's just because everything on this forum is so obscenely over priced that people suspect every fair priced item. check out www.singletrackworld.com lots of very cheap things, (mtbers arent as tight!)

AND how does he not know about bikes!? he's only mentioned the chain tension because it's a vert dropout frame and its running a magic ratio. read the post before you start bitching.... ppffft.

WTF those are cheap ass wheels you see on Argos/Toys Rus mtb's, and apart from the thompson stuff its all cheap - he posted pics of it being built in the current projects section a few weeks back - if anything 150 quid would be more reasonable - he may come across as WAC, but throwing stolen at him is a bit much.

Ok Guys here we go so all you people who think it's stolen and all the other people that think I am a thief here is the breakdown.

Frame ebay 15 quid because it had no gear hanger or under gear cable guide they can also be bought of a guy who sells bankcrupt stock on ebay for not much more which is where i bought the forks £7.99
My friend has a spray shop so when he is on wirh a certain colour he will spray a frame for £30

wheels ebay Italian mags alloy they were £70
crank GB bike store £23.99 BB £10 postfree

Thomson post singletrack £25 Thomson stem 35 posted
other bits i had already as this is a hobby.

It;s size large by the way 19 from bb to toptube for those asking.

Right lets go through this properly............

You bought the frame for 15 quid........including postage? No. So you must have picked it up. Unlikely but could happen, everyone gets a bargain now and then.

£7.99 for forks. Maybe. Really though that is very cheap.

So you then spent more on the spray job than you did with buying the frame and forks.....again, cheap. Fair play. But why did you spray a frame that you wanted to sell? Why not sell it and let them do what they want with it? After all its a fucking cheap bike all in, why waste £30 spraying it?

As for the post and stem. If I was selling a dirt cheap bike I wouldn't leave on a really nice seatpost and stem. Surely generic items (such as one who is interested in bike would have in a parts box) would have sufficed? You have done a really cheap build so far, why fuck it with these components?

I have no idea with the wheels.

brand new single speed truativ crank with new BB new headset and brand new brakes

Why did you buy and install brand new cranks, bottom bracket and headset if you were just going to flog it for under £200? Just seems ridiculous.

So either

A: You miraculously built this bike for £190 and straight away want your money back

B: Its dodgy

C: The components aren't as new as you say they are.

I'm honestly not being a cunt but I don't see the angle for selling this bike. Added to this that the OP joined a couple of weeks ago, posted fuck all and is now flogging two bikes in one day.

If I'm completely wrong then I apologise but I really have a bad reaction to both this thread and the original one earlier today.

Beacause I can YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE.

it´s a reasonable question mate, he wasn´t insulting you.

didn't we saw that frame in the current project topic?

http://www.londonfgss.com/post371457-2257.html

mate, people are very suspicious here and jave a deep hatred for bike theft, and I´m sure you understand that the last thing we want to do is to buy a stolen bike.

I has no idea whether you´re being genuine or not, but so far, you´re behaving a bit suspicious sometime I have to says.

claiming that a bicycle component company is also your last name isn´t helping either.

what is your problem people!?

Agreed, I wouldn't pay much more that two or three hundred quid for what's on offer, £190 is about right.

. . . . claiming that a bicycle component company is also your last name isn´t helping either.

Ed, what do you find suspicious about his second name being Thomson ?

honestly nothing, but the whole events seemed unusual, he seemed sound but at the same time isn´t.

just realised something - isn´t it a copyright to have a company logos on a bike that doesn´t belong to the company?

honestly nothing, but the whole events seemed unusual, he seemed sound but at the same time isn´t.

Let's kill him first and ask questions later ! :)

just realised something - isn´t it a copyright to have a company logos on a bike that doesn´t belong to the company?

Yes, probably, do you think we should get a cease and desist order arranged ? Or shall we go straight ahead and sue him on behalf of Thomson for the damage he has caused to the company.

Whatever were Thomson thinking when they had the idea to give away stickers with their company name on with every single product you buy from them.

;p

Hi it's a large 19'' BBto toptube I would prefer an xl frame so if i don't sell as a whole I will break it down,and rebuild it onto a xl frame.

' A large 19" ' is no way to size a bicycle frame. Is 22" XL?

' A large 19" ' is no way to size a bicycle frame. Is 22" XL?

In the world of MTB frames - 19" is often a large (depending on manufacturer and how they size the frame) - my

the wheels look tiny, like bmx wheels, and it's difficult buy a bike which doesn't even have the frame size when you first post it.

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