Same holds true for old cars or boats. If you know what you are doing and want to do the project, great. If you have no clue but see a low price on ebay or CL, you are just rolling dice. I bought a used frame set (RBW Road) here (or maybe it was on the 650B list?) from a reputable seller and knew what my budget would be. I also could (and did) build it up from scratch myself. It worked out satisfactorily, but for the same money I could also have purchased new, decent quality mass production bike. The bike I built up is way more bike for the same money, imo.
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery < thill....@gmail.com> wrote: > My previous comment was in no way intended to say that used/older bikes > are not worth buying and/or fixing. I simply wanted to offer my perspective > about what I consider to be reasonable expectations in this situation. Too > often, people buy used older bikes while wearing a set of blinders because > they want to believe that this cool vintage bike will be a fun and > economical project. Sometimes it's not fun or economical. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
