For Sale: Dolan Pre-Cursa for sale

56cm Dolan Pre Cursa Track bike with many virtually new and upgraded parts

Everything apart from the frame and forks was brand new and has only been used for half a dozen light training sessions on the track at Halesowen.

I bought the frame and fork secondhand and then had it built up by professional mechanics at my local bike shop with brand new parts, including upgraded wheels

Wheels - Miche Pistard, fitted with Continental Sprinter Tubs - these are better than the ones fitted to the standard bikes.

Frame: Dolan Pre Cursa alloy track frame with a few scratches. There's some photos below where I've tried to picture the worst of these on the top bar, the seat stay, a chain stay and a couple of marks on the head tube.

Fork: Alpina carbon. Drilled if you wanted to fit a brake and use it on the road

Cinelli track bars, Ritchey stem, Alpina seat post, San Marco Ponza saddle

Sugino crankset. 48 tooth. 170 cranks

I'm happy to deliver or meet you within say, 40 miles or so from Dudley.

Or I could bring it down to London where I work

Alternatively, you could collect it or I could get a price to post/courier it to you if you wanted.

Looking for £325 ono

Photos here (the first four) http://s1163.photobucket.com/albums/q558/Ian6605/

No interest?

Any advice?

be patient :) you only posted this late on sunday and then 6am on monday!

I have some advice. BikeRadar or here, not both...

Fair enough - apologies if I've broken etiquette. Out of interest - why?
Surely best to advertise as widely as possible?

best for you. not best for the forum and its members.

Fair enough. I didn't realise that's how it worked on here. I stuck it on there and someone replied and suggested this would be a better bet. Apologies.

This is also on ebay. Sort it out.

how much you willing to sell the dolan frame for??

I'd prefer not to split it at the moment to be honest

£300, anyone?

260?

I'm already giving it away (or a lot of it) at 300!

what happened
ebay auction not going well?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dolan-Pre-Cursa-Track-Bike-with-many-hardly-used-upgraded-parts-/200766871081?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item2ebea35629#ht_500wt_1114

I think it's going ok with a day to go but as with all these things, we'll see.

Reported.

Ian you've been politely told not advertise elsewhere, so instead, now why don't you just fucking do one eh?

take it off ebay or close this thread

I hope it sells for £155 on ebay

I explained - it was advertised before on ebay and I apologised as I hadn't known people objected.
I am sorry about this - it was a genuine error. People sell things on Bikeradar etc whilst advertised elsewhere without any complaints and I didn't realise different ettiquete applied.

you have a chance of fixing this genuine error by closing the thread

I'm going to let it pass. In part so I can re-iterate why we have these rules, but Ian can finish with the sale providing he closes the thread on LFGSS after it has been sold.

This is why we have these rules:

If we just let people cross-post adverts, all forums and communities fill up with the same few adverts cross-posted everywhere. Effectively everywhere gets spammed.

A lot of the time, people aren't interested in the items. We've already chosen the communities and forums we wish to belong on, and these generally have types of bikes (tourers and randonneurs on CTC, common road bikes and commuters on Bike Radar, fixed and single speed here)... so we can avoid everything we're not interested in just by choosing where to look.

The classifieds on LFGSS are here to simply provide a mechanism through which fellow community members may sell to each other. Whilst it's public it was established in the spirit of "mates selling to mates", and as such if we're selling to the world why wouldn't we just put it on eBay and nowhere else? Mates rates are supposed to be in effect here, and for the most part they are.

If you post an item across, say, 4 different websites... would you tell all 4 you've sold it after the matter? Generally not, so every forum ends up with open adverts and no clue as to whether the item is still for sale, disposed of, or whatever.

And finally by having these rules we can keep the classifieds a high quality rather than high quantity source for fixed and single speed stuff. We can avoid all of the items that a few people busily cross-post (spam) over many forums.

So those are the reasons for the rules... the spirit behind it.

Now in this case, normally I'd delete the thread before you even realised... it would just be gone. But then I don't normally get the chance to have my mini-lecture on the matter.

So I'd rather leave the thread up, particularly as it's at least on-topic for this site, unlike the many Ridgebacks that normally get tangled in the spam queue.

I wish you luck with your sale, but please bear these rules in mind in the future and if you do get caught cross-posting stuff then you'll have the thread deleted straight away.

Cheers

David

Fair enough - and I'm grateful.
I genuinely didn't know.
I stuck it on ebay and on bikerader (which is ok, so far as I know)
Someone on there suggested I stick it on here and I just assumed it would be ok.
I promise I'll let you know as soon as it goes - I would have done so anyway.
Thanks for this - I'm always sorry to see a bike go, but I'm begining to be keen to get rid of it now - after all the offence I've caused!
Thanks again
Ian

Hi ian

will you take £280

Kind regards

Chrismorgan