Shameless Fishing Expedition - Track frame for sale maybe

I'd be interested in a 57cm if you have it

I misread the title as 'shamelss fisting expedition'

whatever rocks your world

I misread the title as 'shamelss fisting expedition'

whatever rocks your world

An understandable mistake if you are speed reading and you have seen that heading before......

Looks like there could be a good spread of sizes from the inventory :

51 cm Raleigh

52 cm Raleigh

53 cm Raleigh

54 cm Raleigh

55 cm Raleigh

57 cm Raleigh

60 cm Raleigh

i could be interested in the 55 depending on price.

That's the dilemma I have ,

I need enough cash to replace the bikes with machines that will look good in the eyes of fashion casualty kids on the new NISA /SCH velodrome.

I don't want to really rip any one off or get in to a email dispute over the sale, and I would like the frames to go to folk that would appreciate them for what they are .

I have one that I was given by one of our club founders and will be riding it in Glasgow as I think the connection with the history of track racing in Scotland is significant, well for me any way .

Has this change come as a result of the uncertain future of Meadowbank and the imminent opening of the velodrome in Glasgow? Shiny velodrome; shiny bikes?

EDIT: Hadn't refreshed before I posted this and you had answered my question within that time.

We know Meadowbank will be going for an other three summers but it's so unpredictable with the weather and although the track is in good shape the infrastructure is really delapidated.

Once NISA is open in October we will be making the 40 min trip through in the team bus for warm dry indoor training , so I envisage a load of new riders using our new bikes.

Also our association has not bought a new track bike since these ones 31 years ago !

I'd be after a 60cm.

Stick a price on them, I don't think anyone will be quibbling. Personally I'll buy it if I can afford to but will wish you well if it's out of my range. I like Kompute's suggestion above - I'll give you a Dolan Precursa F+F as well.

I've never considered buying a bike I don't need or for sentimentality / nostalgia reasons...until these came up!...luckily can't afford.

Good luck with the upgrade, have you considered getting a local museum to buy at least one (maybe one identified that Chris Hoy used to use) to keep the history local?

Could talk to Dolan about bulk discount for replacing those 7 bikes, and see what your target is. Then deliberate over price after?

You may find more value from selling the frame sets and components separately, if you have the time and energy to do that.

£450 for a complete bike?

I reckon people might be tempted, plus some historical pedigree to them and it can be seen as a charitable donation to support young, upcoming riders.

the 57cm is tempting me .... a lot

they are all SB's right ?

I'd suggest doing an audit of the stock to determine how many in each size that you have and whether any of the bikes are in below average condition.

I'd then suggest photographing in detail a couple of bikes to show the average quality (dings, dents, etc). A single bike will always leave doubt as to whether the others are of equal quality.

If you do this, and then want to sell them all, then I'll happily send an email to the 25,000 mailing list members, and I'm fairly sure we can start one thread per bike and treat it as an auction... highest bid within 1 week, with bidding remaining open 10 minutes after last bid (no sniping).

This would probably shift the vast majority at fair prices, and because it would hit the other mailing lists and forums by word of mouth within the week... you'll have reached pretty much anyone in the UK who would be interested in the bikes and taking into account the provenance.

^ This?

^^sounds good, everyone's a winner.

Damn, can we not just do the swap as suggested!

Really though Velocio's suggestion is excellent, though i think you'd be better off doing it as a sealed bid auction.

I personally don't understand how "with bidding remaining open 10 minutes after last bid (no sniping)." would work? Surely that just leaves it open infinitely if people keep bidding within 10 minutes of the last bid, or leaves it just as open to sniping just with the auction ending 10 minutes later.

Allister, I'll trade a small one for a Velo Ecosse Custom Track Bike - my red one, It think you saw it at the track.

I personally don't understand how "with bidding remaining open 10 minutes after last bid (no sniping)." would work? Surely that just leaves it open infinitely if people keep bidding within 10 minutes of the last bid, or leaves it just as open to sniping just with the auction ending 10 minutes later.

Sniping would be impossible - each attempted snipe would extend the time by 10 mins

So yeah, the auction could theoretically go on forever then?

Yep, but the price has to keep going up! People will drop out eventually I'm sure

I'd like a 60cm frame if it has a 58/59cm top tube.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dolan-Pre-Cursa-Track-Frameset-/320773966598?pt=UK_sportsleisure_cycling_bikeparts_SR&var=&hash=item76c0edfae0
I presume you want more than £210?

That's a great idea,

I will do the sums and work out how much it would take to get each Raleigh "transformed" in to a modern bike by the time I use the existing chain set, saddle sprocket and chain.

The wheels are either missing or are well past their best.

I will add in bars, stem and wheels to the equation, then using the maintainance cash I have will work out the cost to change and make that the reserve price for that frame.

If the committee approve, then I will do the photo's for each frame a load them to the picassa site then ask **Velocio to **start one thread per frame and take it from there.

If there is cash left over once the deals are done, it can go in to race wheels or some thing similar.

Allister

I'd suggest doing an audit of the stock to determine how many in each size that you have and whether any of the bikes are in below average condition.

I'd then suggest photographing in detail a couple of bikes to show the average quality (dings, dents, etc). A single bike will always leave doubt as to whether the others are of equal quality.

If you do this, and then want to sell them all, then I'll happily send an email to the 25,000 mailing list members, and I'm fairly sure we can start one thread per bike and treat it as an auction... highest bid within 1 week, with bidding remaining open 10 minutes after last bid (no sniping).

This would probably shift the vast majority at fair prices, and because it would hit the other mailing lists and forums by word of mouth within the week... you'll have reached pretty much anyone in the UK who would be interested in the bikes and taking into account the provenance.

they are all SB's right ?

Just had a quick look at some of the frames this afternoon and they are indeed all numbered from SB 46XX in sequence which puts them as mid 81 vintage.

Most are in the Red Ti Ralegh livery but a couple have been repainted in single colour red.