Raleigh Technium ('88-ish) Norfolk 99p start

[grogee]

(Not mine)

Really like this, top end Technium with U-brake... but it's in Norfolk, which may as well be Mongolia to me. Last time I drove there I couldn't believe how far away from civilisation it was...

Anyway, bike looks like an easy resto:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Bikes-/33503/ ... SRCHX:SRCH

 

[jaypee]

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That's a rare beasty. Only other one I've seen in the UK
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=266117

 

[lowe1677]

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very nice,odd wheels but still a great bike.

 

[grogee]

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I hadn't spotted the odd wheels. My technium lunched its back wheel back in the day - it was some crappy Araya job which I replaced with a nice mavic ceramic job. Then I killed it by riding into a wheelbarrow full of hot tar. Frame unbonded and hurty burnt skin...

 

[grogee]

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Well that was weird - it got relisted. Final price was £42 which seems like a bargain to me. Anyway you've all got another chance now

 

[andyz]

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I was the under-bidder, but have not received any 2nd chance offer, so I suspect I was bidding against his mate! :evil:
Why don't they just put a reserve on it?

 

[sherlylock]

Add a reserve or just a but it now/best offer!

I chucked in a cheeky bid too (probably the under-under bidder) as I'm back in Norfolk this weekend. I also suspect a bit of shill-bidding too.

EDIT: The winning bidder has a 71% bidding activity with the seller and looking back through previous sales he's bid up several of his own items. Presumably pointless reporting this sort of stuff as hard to prove?