Parting out a bike is often more lucrative. A savvy individual can spot and acquire underpriced complete bikes and turn a tidy profit parting out those bikes. I did that recently and got a MUSA lugged steel Reynolds 531 frameset for free.
On Jun 13, 1:28 pm, Leslie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 13, 4:16 pm, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:22 -0700, Minh wrote: > > > > In this particular case i think the price overall is too high. if a > > > 'new' ram frame+fork is in the 1200-1400 range (i'm being generous), > > > are there another 12-1400 worth of parts there? > > > How's that possible? The equivalent current production Riv bike is the > > Hilsen, and it's $2000. Even the Hillborne is $1500, and new ones have > > those gagamaggot double showstopper top tubes. > > But the Ram was discontinued before $2k became the 'norm' price for > the non-Taiwan frames.... I think its last price was about $1600, > before it ceased. Yeah, I agree, the AHH or the Ram is now a $2k > bike; but, I don't think you can't fairly base a NOS Ram price against > the current new price of the others... IMHO, FWIW... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
