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Strange excuses for selling a bike

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  • Started 11 years ago by Wilmington's Cow
  • Latest reply from Focus

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  1. Coxy
    Member

    "And I get a strange pain in my crotch...."

    Posted 11 years ago #
  2. Did think the same thing when I saw the pic...

    Posted 11 years ago #
  3. Instography
    Member

    Strange excuse for a bike.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  4. Baldcyclist
    Member

    My next Gumtree advert could be:

    "I'm selling this hardly used upright ladies bicycle because I'm a gullible twat.

    You see, we just recently sold our ladies and gents mountain bikes after my wasting £500 on them trying to get my wife to cycle, which she then said she didn't like.

    She then had a fad notion that she liked 'proper' upright ladies bicycles, so more the fool me I bought her one, meh"

    I haven't actually wasted any good money yet, but the day is soon coming, she has been on my back for weeks now. Perhaps I should just buy one to order - for someone else.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  5. kaputnik
    Moderator

    "Brakes are tunes to work rather well!"

    Posted 11 years ago #
  6. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    That's a bad ad. Not as bad as the ones in Cycling Weekly where top-end road bikes are sold having been bought on a whim by people with more money than sense who have moved on to golf with only a couple of hundred dry miles use, never raced or crashed.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  7. Iratesheep
    Member

    Their other ad is weird too.

    £600 for the pair?

    Posted 11 years ago #
  8. custard
    Member

    swap for a road bike?
    with heaters no doubt

    Posted 11 years ago #
  9. le_soigneur
    Member

    ... and a Turbo trainer ;-)

    Posted 11 years ago #
  10. Bhachgen
    Member

    I like how he describes it as a "head-turner". I can only imagine the stage following the headturning is the "point-and-laugh-er"

    Posted 11 years ago #
  11. gembo
    Member

    All very cruel. Perhaps the gum tree person is Spanish and his English is not quite perfect but still good for it being not your first language and also he is feeling very cold a long way from home. With the orange he may be Basque. He also has a lovely wee dog. £200 is a bit pricey

    Posted 11 years ago #
  12. crowriver
    Member

    Yeah, I thought instantly "English is not first language" but then is that second ad for the jump bike really the same person? Linguistically totally different, it's a kind of young guy's casual slang.

    Very weird.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  13. Focus
    Member

    Re the fixie:

    "Give me a bell!"

    Sounds like a good swap to me ;-)

    Posted 11 years ago #

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