FairfaxPat":388xnuhh said:What's the old saying---"If you want to hang with the big dogs, you'd best be hanging around the big trees"--- I like old bikes, and most of them aren't that expensive, but there are always exceptions, and this bike is one of them. It's not just a bike, but an Iconic first representation of a purpose built custom MTB that basically started the present era of Mountain bikes, as separate from road bikes. It's also beautifully built, handcrafted by a master designer/builder and they aren't making any more of them! So it's worth whatever the buyer thinks it's worth, and there are some Big Dogs out there! -- Oh, Jamabikes, the owner is out riding it Today, and I rode it yesterday, no reason not to, it is a bike after all- albeit a pricy one.
Why not? Maybe you couldn't ride it, but is that because of it's rarity, significance, etc, or because it cost $25000?jamabikes":3l3io33z said:highlandsflyer":3l3io33z said:So are we at the point of understanding you would want old bikes to cost less to buy now than they did new?
If that is the case, it surely does not apply to all of them? Some of them must be worth more in light of their significance, and if that is not relevant to you you can surely appreciate it might be to others and be somewhat less sad about it?
Personally if I came into the kind of money necessary to start throwing together an MTB collection that Breezer would be right up there on my list of desirable acquisitions, and given its rarity and significance 25k would be a bargain.
Not entirely. It's the fact that any bike can be worth so much money when it cant be ridden. Cos let's face it if you bought it you couldnt ride it.
Cheer up mate!jamabikes":na4rdbye said:For the eleventh billionth time, im sure that this bike is worth the asking price, hell my first reaction was I thought it would be up for more. My reason for starting th thread was that what I always thought of a nice cozy little niche sport could now command such a high price, and that someone would spend more than I earn in a year on a bike that in all likelihood won't be used for what it was made.