For Sale: Rudi Altig single speed road bike 57cm/medium frame

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.

Hi, as a light cheap student bike this looks perfect. Why where you trying to change the chain ring?

£70?? Dibs!

Hi, as a light cheap student bike this looks perfect. Why where you trying to change the chain ring?

Yeah, this is probably as good a student run-around bike as you could wish for. The chainring business was because I wanted to change to a larger gear but basically have lots of different sized chainrings but no alternative sizes of single speed sprockets to do it that way. I wouldn't worry about wanting to change the chainrings for yourself- the ones on the bike are steel with little wear, and look likely to see you through the period of a long college/uni course IMO.

Hi ,

If tripleparanoia doesn't take it i'd love to have a look at it

Cheers - Paul

Er, I should have mentioned from the first that I've also advertised the bike elsewhere so I may close the sale down anytime, and judging by reactions (might be due to the sweet price!) elsewhere looks like this will be sold before end of today folks!

Cheers for the reply,

PM'ed you yesterday and would love to come pick it up today. Being new I'm not sure how first interest and calling dibs works here, play it as you see fit.

Thanks either way - Bryn

sorry...actually changed my mind, good luck with the sale

"Basic rules for classifieds:
If you have an item for sale anywhere other than here, like ebay, bikeradar, ctc, retrobike, etc. then you cannot post it here."

'welcome to my auction'

You twat

Doh- I see a million and one sellers on ebay stating they are selling the listed item elsewhere- and big profit-conscious ebay seem to continue letting these sellers keep their listings on till they finish, despite their staff checking the listings... they simply don't care- for good non-pedantic reasoning.
A 'twat' is someone who decides to dogmatically shout their opinions out, because they are fully aware that reasonable argument would result in them being viewed as the twat- when they can see that the majority of people around them ARE reasonable... in which case they'd better hide behind their ranting. Doh
Bike's provisionally sold by the way

Sold! Sold! Sold!- so please, no more PMs (and no more tedious studenty-type smart-arsed ranting. thanks)

No ship to Jakarta?