FS NOS FARMER JOHN/ COUSIN
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Dirt Disciple
i know, i'm just returning some of the good natured banter. it is april fool's day after all.
i know my starting price is high, believe me, i get a little shock when i look at my own ebay auction. however, i've had them for quite some time so i'm not in a big hurry to sell them so why not start high. i'm in california, the land where you never underestimate the possibility of that ''rich guy'' who comes along and buys your stuff without batting an eyelash.
i didn't research the closed auction prices for NOS tioga tires, i just looked at current auctions and saw what people are asking for NOS tioga BMX tires...wanna be shocked, check it out. vintage BMX stuff is pricey. i wish i would have known, i gave my 80's freestyle bikes away for free years ago.
any ways, i'm not here trying to rip anyone off or get rich off of some tires. i'm just a dude who loves everything to do with the halcyon era of mountain biking, i'm just happy to have stumbled across a community of people who feel the same way.
i know my starting price is high, believe me, i get a little shock when i look at my own ebay auction. however, i've had them for quite some time so i'm not in a big hurry to sell them so why not start high. i'm in california, the land where you never underestimate the possibility of that ''rich guy'' who comes along and buys your stuff without batting an eyelash.
i didn't research the closed auction prices for NOS tioga tires, i just looked at current auctions and saw what people are asking for NOS tioga BMX tires...wanna be shocked, check it out. vintage BMX stuff is pricey. i wish i would have known, i gave my 80's freestyle bikes away for free years ago.
any ways, i'm not here trying to rip anyone off or get rich off of some tires. i'm just a dude who loves everything to do with the halcyon era of mountain biking, i'm just happy to have stumbled across a community of people who feel the same way.
Yetinut":nocfkths said:Kingroon you owe me $200
under the radar":nocfkths said:
So we all are
I'd be keen on the Cousin, if you'd split the pair, and if you come down to around the US$50 mark Shipping to the UK might be on the high side I guess..Onetimeviking
Devout Dirtbag
No not worthless at all , you just overpriced them ....some garage queens would possibly pay that but most people that ride certainly would,nt .....
merlinmanson
Devout Dirtbag
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leave the advert up.
If they are really NOS there's eventually someone who's going to want them even at high prices.
Yesterday, Wall St Journal ran an article on how 90s mtb's are appreciating (with a nice mention of ProsCloset). You can be sure that there will be speculators driving prices up to even more ridiculous levels.
(I never looked into the BMX side of things - wow - those things are really overpriced).
leave the advert up.
If they are really NOS there's eventually someone who's going to want them even at high prices.
Yesterday, Wall St Journal ran an article on how 90s mtb's are appreciating (with a nice mention of ProsCloset). You can be sure that there will be speculators driving prices up to even more ridiculous levels.
(I never looked into the BMX side of things - wow - those things are really overpriced).
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Dirt Disciple
well...they sold. for $299US to someone in Colorado...guess they read the WSJ too. i'm almost sad to see them go. hopefully whoever bought them will mount them on something cool.
merlin, do you have a link to the WSJ article?
now i'm feeling a bit nostalgic, i'm remembering back to my first MTB, it was a white 1988 Mongoose Alta and it came stock with some no name 1.5'' tires and they were fine until one morning out at my local mountain my friend and i came upon a MTB race that had just ended. we were wondering around looking at all the cool bikes strewn about and i realized that my tires just wouldn't do. my friend who had been reading bike magazines was much more keen on the bikes and components, i was still pretty clueless but had some idea from BMX stuff, he told me i should get Farmer Johns...Farmer Johns! he wouldn't shut up about them, he wanted them on his Cannondale and i should have them too. when he pointed them out to me on one of the racer's bike, i was blown away, they looked like tractor tires...and i thought that's why they were called farmer johns, i had no idea who John Tomac was. i was convinced, the next day after school i went to the local bike shop to spend all the money 12 year old me had on some Farmer Johns...oh no! they only had one...but the guru at the shop showed me that the chevron design was good as a rear tire but bad as a front...so i left the shop with my new Farmer John on the rear and a Ritchey Megabite on the front...and they looked huge to me. i felt like i could ride over anything. a monster had been created, while i was at the bike shop i noticed a neon yellow A-TAC stem which became my next upgrade to that bike a few months of saving later. i still have the stem, the bike and that first Farmer John are now long gone. a few years later, i was a racer, riding a shiny Zaskar, my tires of choice were a folding Dart/Smoke combo in 2.1. i was out on the road i went in a random bike shop for something and i saw some Tioga Farmer Johns and his cousins on a discount bin. it was 1993 and they were considered obsolete in those days but i just loved the way they looked so i bought them without even knowing what i would do with them...and here we are 20+ years later, the end of the line.
merlin, do you have a link to the WSJ article?
now i'm feeling a bit nostalgic, i'm remembering back to my first MTB, it was a white 1988 Mongoose Alta and it came stock with some no name 1.5'' tires and they were fine until one morning out at my local mountain my friend and i came upon a MTB race that had just ended. we were wondering around looking at all the cool bikes strewn about and i realized that my tires just wouldn't do. my friend who had been reading bike magazines was much more keen on the bikes and components, i was still pretty clueless but had some idea from BMX stuff, he told me i should get Farmer Johns...Farmer Johns! he wouldn't shut up about them, he wanted them on his Cannondale and i should have them too. when he pointed them out to me on one of the racer's bike, i was blown away, they looked like tractor tires...and i thought that's why they were called farmer johns, i had no idea who John Tomac was. i was convinced, the next day after school i went to the local bike shop to spend all the money 12 year old me had on some Farmer Johns...oh no! they only had one...but the guru at the shop showed me that the chevron design was good as a rear tire but bad as a front...so i left the shop with my new Farmer John on the rear and a Ritchey Megabite on the front...and they looked huge to me. i felt like i could ride over anything. a monster had been created, while i was at the bike shop i noticed a neon yellow A-TAC stem which became my next upgrade to that bike a few months of saving later. i still have the stem, the bike and that first Farmer John are now long gone. a few years later, i was a racer, riding a shiny Zaskar, my tires of choice were a folding Dart/Smoke combo in 2.1. i was out on the road i went in a random bike shop for something and i saw some Tioga Farmer Johns and his cousins on a discount bin. it was 1993 and they were considered obsolete in those days but i just loved the way they looked so i bought them without even knowing what i would do with them...and here we are 20+ years later, the end of the line.
merlinmanson
Devout Dirtbag
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-passion-f ... 1427820766
prices have been rising for several years now, but I feel that they are really accelerating now. And it is not just that "prices are going up" but I notice that things are much more difficult to find, irrespective of price.
I consider myself lucky for managing to snag a pair of NOS cousins for $50 a few months ago.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-passion-f ... 1427820766
prices have been rising for several years now, but I feel that they are really accelerating now. And it is not just that "prices are going up" but I notice that things are much more difficult to find, irrespective of price.
I consider myself lucky for managing to snag a pair of NOS cousins for $50 a few months ago.
under the radar
Dirt Disciple
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thank you for the link.
thank you for the link.
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