burdturglar

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• Wanted: 8spd/triple STI shifters

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• Wanted: 8spd/triple STI shifters

  in Wanted Adverts • 14 years, 2 months

  

  If I had the cash they would be the best choice I think. However, I am pretty broke at the moment so some used sora is probably the most I can afford.

• Wanted: 8spd/triple STI shifters

  in Wanted Adverts • 14 years, 2 months

  

  Hi everybody,

  Recently bought a bike of ebay and both of the shifters are kaput unfortunately. So if anyone has some 8spd/triple shimano compatable shifters they want to offload please let me know. Thanks

• Stolen bikes

  in General • 14 years, 3 months

  

  Thanks for the info. Perhaps I am wrong, but there might be a sizeable difference between the flight 05 and the day 05. My understanding was that the 05 was a black sheep of sorts with drop handlebars in a hybrid family. The £550 figure came from a forum post which referred to a cycling weekly review of the bike and another post which put it at 700 euro.

  "ridgeback genesis day 05" - Google Search

• Stolen bikes

  in General • 14 years, 3 months

  

  From the limited information I have been able to find on the bike it retailed for £550 in 2006. Where did you read it was equivalent to the flight? I won it via auction with six other bidders. Cheers

• Stolen bikes

  in General • 14 years, 3 months

  

  @Camden stranger - vep that is him. So you think this guy might be involved in some racket?

  @ Col, I realise if the bike is stolen the owner is pretty unlikely to get it back, but I would prefer not to become part of any shitty activity.

  Will try and get the frame number at anyrate.

• Stolen bikes

  in General • 14 years, 3 months

  

  Would appreciate some quick advice here. I recently won an ebay auction for a silver ridgeback genesis day 05 and have some suspicions that the bike might have been stolen at some point.

  The bike itself has a broken gear cable and front and back tyres are different colours.

  The seller has about 50 ratings and his history shows he has sold a number of bikes in the past year. This by itself doesn't indicate much, but I recently found a recently cached google page of a gumtree ad listed for the same model of bike. This advertisement doesn't give many clues that it is the bike I have bought, but looks like it could have been written by some illiterate crackhead. So I am thinking this ebay sellar might have recently bought a stolen bike, and has now sold it on to me.

  Does this look like something I should try to get out of asap? Or should I be asking the ebay seller some very specific questions? (I am due to pick up the bike at his house tomorrow). Thanks