Dave Yates Reynolds fillet brazed 853 frame. XTR 950 MTB

[d8mok]

You might buy it, take a look at the frame and think, wow, that fillet brazed wonder is even more nice than a kona hot

I’ve actually no doubt it’s a nicer frame to be fair. But Dave Yates isn’t a brand I wanted back in the day and I’m kinda at full capacity almost.

The hot has only kinda come about as I feel I need a companion for my Hei Hei who’s hugely outnumbered by the GT gang

 

[oldave]

I prefer the presumably post-'97 Caygill, but I think 900 notes over the top:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235795036269

 

[doctor-bond]

I’m (genuinely) curious why the cranks are the thing that makes all the trouble of getting and splitting worthwhile - are they super rare & super minty? (PS, pencil me in for the rear mech …)

 

[d8mok]

I’m (genuinely) curious why the cranks are the thing that makes all the trouble of getting and splitting worthwhile - are they super rare & super minty? (PS, pencil me in for the rear mech …)

No nothing special. But I’ll buy any bike that has a part I need to then sell the rest and end up cost neutral

 

[doctor-bond]

That’s a game of skill. (I thought the brakes would be the thing - good V’s getting obsolete, etc).

 

[Takingabreak]

I prefer the presumably post-'97 Caygill, but I think 900 notes over the top:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235795036269

Both the Yates and the Caygill are nice bikes but way over the top with pricing for the current market. Watching ebay, even fashionable used gravel bikes are struggling to sell at those prices. I've been half on the lookout for a used bargain priced Sonder Camino to experience this gravel bike thing and have had a nice looking one in my watch list nagging at me for weeks and weeks, I've not pulled the trigger on it but crucially neither has anyone else. The price for it has now dropped to £600. Whole bikes just aren't selling well at the moment. Would be interesting to know whether bike parts are selling any better.

 

[Takingabreak]

No nothing special. But I’ll buy any bike that has a part I need to then sell the rest and end up cost neutral

That's an interesting approach that I'd not really considered for my bike hobby. It must take quite a lot of time and effort to sell the other parts of the bike that you don't want. Do you ever end up with a pile of parts at the end that just don't sell ?

 

[Gtpulse]

I’ve done the same for a long time though probably across a wider age/type and at a lower end of the quality scale to @d8mok
Buy well and you end up with the stuff you wanted and sell off the stuff you don’t to offset the cost of what you’ve kept. Excluding a couple of “birthday presents” I’m cost neutral. You do end up with some piles of stuff that no one wants and I’d feel bad about chucking away - manky seat posts/stems, toeclips and straps, light brackets, low end brakes/gears etc. To me that’s part of the hobby. Some folk end up with really high end stuff without really throwing lots of cash at it.
I’m not Granniegear either!

 

[Tootyred]

Ive bought bikes for the wheels / groupset in the past. If your happy to get the other bits gone, its quite an efficient way of getting what you need.

Sometimes the only way if the bits are not very common in good order...rims especially.

 

[Once A Hero]

I’ve actually no doubt it’s a nicer frame to be fair. But Dave Yates isn’t a brand I wanted back in the day and I’m kinda at full capacity almost.

The hot has only kinda come about as I feel I need a companion for my Hei Hei who’s hugely outnumbered by the GT gang

A simple solution would be to release that Hei Hei