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@jaspergh
Ah, no, the steerer tube is 1" but the clamp needs my handlebars which have a 24mm diameter in the middle. If you have something that fits I should be able to get to E14.
The price, well.
I was in this bike jumble sale first thing in the morning and was chatting to Luckyskull when a I saw this guy come in to the hall with a small pink frame. I interrupted Luke, said "smallpinkframe" and made a beeline for the frame. Straight away this other guy starts eyeing it up, while I start measuring it up. It's my size, I take a look at the whole frame and realise it's exactly what I want when I see this other guy talking to the owner. I ses to him
"Are you buying this frame?"
"I just bought it." He'd just bought it for £90. "You can buy it off me though."
He then disappears, making me wait for a bit, I find him and say I wanna buy the frame, he takes me aside with the frame and goes.
"Right, it's £145."
"!!!!!!!!!!. You just bought it for £90!"
"Yeah. I'm a dealer. That's what I do."
"Well will you take £100?"
"No."
"£120?"
He shakes his head. "It's not enough. Tell you what though, I'll put it in my van and you can have a think, have a cup of tea and a roll, and come back to me. £140".
"Uuuuh. Okay."
So I have a coffee and a roll and I talk to the original owner and I talk to Luckyskull, I know I really want it, but I don't wanna pay a £50 premium for being shit at haggling. The original owner says that it's a good frame and he doesn't think that £140 is such a bad price and shows me the new headset in it. Luckyskull tells me that if I really want it, then I should pay what it's worth to me (I think this is what Marx meant by "exchange value").
So I go up to my stony-faced enemy and say "I've had a think, and I think you're gonna so really well by selling this straight away in cash. You won't to package it, transport it, post it, store it, or anything. So I think that £130's a good price."
"Ok. Deal."
He said that far too quickly! I realised that £145 - 10%= £130 so £130 was probably the price he was looking for in the first place. I coulda definitely knocked another tenner off it.
Anyway, so I paid £130. That's £30 more than I paid for my entire current bike.