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@walkmanman
Welcome to my auction for a Rudi Altig single speed road bike.
£70
I've recently bought it planning to use it as a single speed training bike over the winter, but generally feel happier on the normal geared bikes. Despite being a vintage (70s?) bike, it's still in good condition- no dents in the frame, scratches have been carefully touched up and there's little wear to moving parts and the wheels are true. Mechanically, everything's in good order- all bearings are smooth except for the back wheel which is a might notchy (you might want to replace the cartridge bearings, but I've ridden like this for a good while and it's not worsened) with no play and the brakes still grab nicely. One of the cotterless pins in the left hand crank arm has bent whilst I tried to remove it so I could swap to a different-sized chainring, but a bike shop would drill this out in half an hour if the situation arose that the original 30+ year old bottom bracket bearing gave up the ghost, but after all this time I'd say it's doubtful. Being a single speed bike there's considerably little weight to it- especially as the frame is quite a small one, and alloy wheels help things along. I reckon the weight to be around 23lbs, even considering its medium/approx 57cm size.
If you have any questions please PM me a message and I will reply asap.
NB I will be able to post, but in the UK only. If you want to go ahead with this, packaged weight is approx 10kgs, so it'll be a bit pricey. Probably best to collect from my home in SE London, as it will also be a fair bit dismanted if it does get packaged up.