http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: gumtree - Recent Posts en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:43:28 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1351#post-12690 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:11:46 +0000 davidmhodgey 12690@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe they won it in a church raffle? :D </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1351#post-12608 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:38:45 +0000 recombodna 12608@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>because it's so hideously ugly the seller is too embarrassed to ride it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1351#post-12584 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:11:20 +0000 kaputnik 12584@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Like most Halfords customers, they probably had to drive there and were therefore stressed and angry as a result :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1351#post-12580 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:49:32 +0000 gembo 12580@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I saw an amazing drama in Halfords the other day when Mr and Mrs Methadone decided to dress up in their estimate of cycling types [but forgetting that we don't normally shout at bike mechanics when they are serving other people - of course it is a free country] and get a cannondale with orange flame type frame fixed - chain and rear mech very rusted. It was their uncles. Dudes in Halfords fairly relaxed, perhaps they encounter these dramas regularly as part of the festival?. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1351#post-12575 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:22:24 +0000 chdot 12575@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just to be clear -</p> <p>I was not in any way suggesting that this particular bike wasn't legitimately owned by the seller.</p> <p>SRD has a few sound options. The actual price may well be less than owner's cost(s) - especially if they bought items separately. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1351#post-12574 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:20:22 +0000 kaputnik 12574@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes I probably am just cynical and if it had been offered for sale in less salubrious environs than Inverleith and if the poster didn't at least seem to know the correct terminology for all the parts then I might have been doubly justified in my suspicions... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1351#post-12573 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:16:00 +0000 SRD 12573@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sudden illness (or worse)? </p> <p>Indignant spouse orders sale? </p> <p>Assembled bike and then lost job, hence need to recoup outlay? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1351#post-12572 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:12:05 +0000 chdot 12572@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"bike end up on Gumtree, and at a higher price"</p> <p>Perhaps someone thinks that if the price is too low people assume it's stolen...</p> <p>cynical moi? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1351#post-12568 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:02:06 +0000 kaputnik 12568@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A brand new, never-used, unbranded, custom-spec carbon road bike end up on Gumtree, and at a higher price than you can buy a better-specified bike kosher off of Wiggle;</p> <p><a href="http://edinburgh.gumtree.com/edinburgh/99/64901199.html">gumtree posting</a></p> <p>The fork looks like a Pinarello but it's an odd selection of components that look like they've been custom assembled as someone's dream machine. </p>