For Sale: Gorgeous Baby Blue Fixie

I paid £100.

I do plan on upgrading/updating parts but as a student, I'm pretty skint.

YouTube - A Zimbabwe Paycheck in Octillions of dollars!

I can easily afford this look at my paycheck I am RICH

I paid £100.

I do plan on upgrading/updating parts but as a student, I'm pretty skint.

You didn't pay over the odds.
Wheels/tyres tend to make the biggest difference in terms of performance so consider those as your first upgrade.

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dibs was called along time ago,
but you can have it for £601,
don't pull any of that aussie underarm bowling type shit either and pm the guy

Dibs!

Dibs!

most all speculative builds will lose money.

..after you factor in a realistic labour charge. Unless you're building hundreds of identical bikes and buying the parts wholesale, obviously. Even if you luck into something really special and under-priced on t'Bay, you're not going to make money after pricing in the hundreds of hours of unsuccessful auction trawling.

If you actually want to make a business out of flogging restored/converted bikes, you need to show some real quality builds (which this baby blue Raleigh manifestly isn't) and then get some commissions off the back of a reputation for quality work. Even then you've probably already missed the boat on "fixies", as they were so last year and the Pistadex has gone down the tubes alongside the rest of the economy.

So, is this bike sold yet....?

So, is this bike sold yet....?

I think it'll be too big for you.

Ha, I don't want it, thanks.

Ha, I don't want it, thanks.

oh that's right, raise his hopes why dontcha?!

oh that's right, raise his hopes why dontcha?!

Sorry :( pouts

dibs

^ pedo!

I'm 18 and this is my brothers account, sorry for putting a bike i spent loads of time and money on for a price that would just about see me even!!! You guys could potentially give me some advise for what its worth etc and start proving you all know something about fixies rather than just claiming you do and then ripping the piss out of me!! I pity you people sad enough to slate me without showing any means of being anything other than demeaning critics, you know so much then why not help the new guy out? Seriously, this fixie community's damn hostile!!!

18! fair play kid, i like the build the pricing is always hard as you put the effort in. most of the piss take wasn't aimed at you, it was an escalation of witt.. and it was pretty funny. do what i do and blame Balki ;)

Take on board the comments on the website, it could work for you, it is a little less hostile introduction to fix gear riding than these 4 walls..

Chap-fuking-aux my son,

+1 to conservative values.

also, if you're looking to build a bike to flog it, look in current projects. that'll give you a look into what people are doing and therefore what's "hot" and what's "not". there's tonnes of vicious criticism in there whenever anyone "makes a mistake". you'll see that nobody is really going for the hot blue and pink look anymore.
hope that helps a little. and, if you are posting bikes to sell, you will get criticised.

good advice Damo. The critisism is what makes you get it right next time - look at it as a great lesson.

BTW the word this year is Fixer not Fixie... it will catch on!

i came to think about it and actually it is not the 'fixie scene' that is hostile and arrogant. it is the internet community thing. always up for a good flaming.

i came to think about it and actually it is not the 'fixie scene' that is hostile and arrogant. it is the internet community thing. always up for a good flaming.

True

I'm 18 and this is my brothers account, sorry for putting a bike i spent loads of time and money on for a price that would just about see me even!!! You guys could potentially give me some advise for what its worth etc and start proving you all know something about fixies rather than just claiming you do and then ripping the piss out of me!! I pity you people sad enough to slate me without showing any means of being anything other than demeaning critics, you know so much then why not help the new guy out? Seriously, this fixie community's damn hostile!!!

How much did you pay for the 501 frame as its really worth about £40 if you are lucky and the other components are mediocre as mentioned if it was a higher grade frame and and better components then it would be worth more but not really £600 unless it was something special.

Keep an eye out on this and see how much it goes for to get an idea

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/REYNOLDS-531-SINGLE-SPEED-RACER-COMMUTER-FIXIE_W0QQitemZ250502816796QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Bikes_GL?hash=item3a5321a41c&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_986wt_1167

Yep, you can buy a complete geared up Raleigh from Gumtree for £70

Yep, you can buy a complete geared up Raleigh from Gumtree for £70

you are being ripped off at BL its £60

Yours it's probably a rusty pile of shite for £60! :-)

Its yours.

I don't want it. Don't put it on me

Flaming: harsh but fair? Discuss? Ok, £600 was never a particulary realistic price to ask - and he probably could have made an easy £100 flogging it on Ebay - but what is the business plan here? Even sitting on my lofty 'I work in an LBS' high horse, I would never have though that pedalling a combination of overpriced new goods together with dubious second-hand wares, especially when parts/resprays etc are likely being bought/done at retail rather than trade (I'd imagine, I'm open to correction of course), is really a viable model. Setting your prices to cover costs in this manner simply won't work because the market isn't prepared to pay what you will need to charge. Where is the benefit in this scheme and more importantly the profit margain? Plus, simply saying 'I didn't know about the second-hand "fixie" market, you're all being cnuts' isn't really an excuse becasue even 5 minutes of basic market research would have told you that you were overpricing to the nth degree. On the plus side, the website is just about on a par with Bob Jackson's and Argos in terms of design and they're both doing alright...

Secondly, I worry about what capacity you're really selling your bikes in? Are you going to guarantee the workmanship on the GBBF or is it sold-as-seen? Do you offer any warranty on the new parts, do you yourself have accredited mechanical experience, e.g. Cytech, actually work for Airnimal etc, or is this purely a whimsical cowboy operation? I wouldn't expect this of a normal second-hand seller of course, but I've had experience with 'bodge-up-and-sell-on' bike merchants before and since you seem to be intent on setting up an actual business here I think this needs clarification, if only for the poor nodders who might eventually end up with your finished product.

Oh and purleeese tell me that's a freewheel on that Perks...

Why does his being 18 make it any less dubious as an approach? Are 18 year olds all stupid and to be treated like they have special needs now?