How much is my orange airo worth? Must see this bad boy!

[Flashybike1]

Well I have made the decision that unless it's life or death I'm not going to part with it. Over £1k worth of bike when new, built it myself and in my eyes can't be replaced and I would cry to see it go for £100.. Purchased a new road bike to get to work on today!

 

[jimo746]

yep, I sold the bike I bought when I was younger with money saved up from paper rounds & part time jobs.... cost a fortune to build up, and sold for peanuts. At the time I was just happy to get the money, looking back it was a crying shame.
But, it's only a bike, you can always get another, different, or better one.

 

[LikeClockwork]

Re:

Ride it at weekends, you'll fall in love with it all over again and you might even catch the retrobike bug proper!

 

[doctorstewie]

Like C Speaks the truth. It happened to me. Caught said bug like an unprotected leper.
I have a relic of my past, the beginnings of a collection, and a grin from ear to ear thanks to the brilliant rides I have had on mine so far.

 

[02gf74]

Unless it something rare then original cost is not always relevant...... but that works in your favour as a buyer (as a seller you can more or less write off most of the the cost )

As an example
I paid around £1800 for my proflex back in '98, which was in a sale, on ebay similar bikes sell for about £200-300. It was the first new bike i bought so im keeping it. I have unretroed it with carbon fibre goodness, fitted a modern rear shock and converted to disc brakes and does come out to play once in a while.

 

[mattr]

One reason it's generally better to split, you still get less than the kit is nominally "worth".
But you'll get a lot more than selling the bike complete.

Or do what I do, put old bikes in the attic.

 

[jimo746]

Or do what I do, put old bikes in the attic.

Heathen!!

 

[mattr]

It's about 60 square metres of clean, dry, walking height storage space. And I've already got 10 bikes in the bike room.

Or maybe 8. Can't remember.