Selling a collection?

[passatman]

I've taken stock and realised that I have way too many bikes, collected over 10 years or so, I'll never get the chance to use/restore most of them, and they are actually making me unhappy when I realise the mess I've got myself into. Has anyone else sold anything similar in the past? To clarify I have maybe 80-100 bikes altogether, a mixture of road, ladies, town and kids, 1960's-1980's, MTB (early-mid 90's). Being honest it is all low-mid range stuff, and most haven't been used in many years. I do know there are some nice bikes among them though, I've bought stuff I've liked mainly which helps.


I don't want to eBay really, I struggle to get stuff packed and sent on time if I'm honest, maybe sell as a job lot? I've even thought about opening my workshop for a day and advertising it through local forums and on here too, but worry that I'm too far away from the bigger audience.


In all seriousness I just don't know what to do, I'm hoping that a retro bicycle loving millionaire will turn up and then everyone will be happy

Any ideas folks? Ta much

 

[severnthheathen]

The money spent on assembling the collection has gone. Don't worry about it. If you couldn't have afforded it you wouldn't have spent it. Move on. Keep the best as a focus for your collecting habit. Give the other stuff away. There are charities that send old bikes to Africa where a bike can make a big difference to a poor family's economic future. You'll feel much happier. The retro bike-loving millionaire is away on holiday with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. I hope this helps.

 

[Old Ned]

The retro bike loving millionaire is looking for the rarest of the rare super bikes not run of the mill ones.

So - I'm out

Sorry

 

[Robbied196]

I kind of inherited a fairly large collection when my parents moved house. There was about 60 bikes ranging across the 50s/60s/70s & 80's, all gents racing bikes from low to high end. I got the job of sorting, cleaning and Ebaying. It took about 18 months to sort them all out although I ended up keeping a few and occasionally buying others with the money raised. The bike addiction must be genetic

Old racing bikes are your best bet, a few ladies racing bikes have some value like the mixte frames. Anything with Reynolds 531 or Columbus frames will do well. The kids bikes and low end mountain bikes won't really fetch much. It will be a tall order to offload the lot in one go. I'd sort out the best, clean them and either list them in the for sale section here, or onto Ebay. You'll get better prices if you offer to post and Halfords or your LBS are usually glad to get rid of bike boxes.

 

[bugloss]

List the high end ones here and maybe someone will want some of them. It costs nothing only an hour or two.

 

[biggs682]

list all of them some people cant afford high end bikes and are happy with what they can afford