Craigslist nightmares and dreams...

[MattiThundrrr]

This one is currently slipping through my fingers, yet again due to pandemic restrictions.

Seller clearly doesn't know what they have, price is so low, and they've listed it as lightweight aluminum.

I should stop shopping Quebec, but it's where all the sweet stuff is!

 

[JA331]

Man, thats a killer bike.

 

[Captain Awesome]

This one is currently slipping through my fingers, yet again due to pandemic restrictions.

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Seller clearly doesn't know what they have, price is so low, and they've listed it as lightweight aluminum.
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I should stop shopping Quebec, but it's where all the sweet stuff is!

Ouch......

 

[Karate Chicken Industries]

DERP: https://boulder.craigslist.org/bik/d/denver-vintage-schwinn-refurbished-tank/7336359749.html

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Imagine what they'd charge if the headlight worked and it had pedals!

 

[whitecoyote]

Check out the backwards forks!
https://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/bik/d/grosse-pointe-just-bilt-26-rat-cruiser/7350678879.html

 

[Karate Chicken Industries]

Check out the backwards forks!
https://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/bik/d/grosse-pointe-just-bilt-26-rat-cruiser/7350678879.html

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[Karate Chicken Industries]

The biggest nightmare about CL on Colorado's Front Range would be the multiple posters. There are some bikes currently on in that realm that are posted up to four times for just one area, and the truly obnoxious do that for multiple areas as well. They are usually flippers (dealers in the "by owner" section) who have overpriced offerings, especially with the current bicycle shortage caused by the pandemic. I don't post F/S on CL very often because of this, usually getting buried off of the front page within hours by these spamtastic beings. Scumbaggery Defined

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I'm tempted, but don't know if I'm tall enough
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-other-bike/ottawa/custom-supercycle-bicycle/1577526824

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Here's a thing I don't get. I see ads all the time that say, "serious buyers only". I hate that. It's tough for me to keep a straight face.

 

[Captain Awesome]

Here's a thing I don't get. I see ads all the time that say, "serious buyers only". I hate that. It's tough for me to keep a straight face.
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I'm never totally serious, I am however a buyer

 

[Karate Chicken Industries]

I find the word "serious" in relation to cycling somewhat offensive because seriousness tends to take the fun out of things. Whenever someone feels they are complimenting me with that colloquialism, my response is simply "I like to have fun."

The CL resume' posters can be tiring. We get it, you work on bikes. The kid next door fixes his own flats, so he too works on bikes. Usually when they have a list of places they have wrenched, the question that comes to my mind is why didn't they stay put somewhere? The never put down why they left the places they have worked, which is an incomplete resume', isn't it? Steven Wright is one of my heroes.

 

[Imaginos]

If I were serious, I wouldn't be buying a bike. Riding makes me happy. I get paid to be serious.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

They try to pay me to be serious.
Or they pay me to try to be serious.
Seriously, I get paid for something.
I get paid seriously for something.

 

[Karate Chicken Industries]

They try to pay me to be serious.
Or they pay me to try to be serious.
Seriously, I get paid for something.
I get paid seriously for something.

Freak!

I found a 1999 Kona Blast in my size

 

[MattiThundrrr]

The Golden Era of Kona!

 

[handyandy1100]

Didn't realize Walmart sold James Hudson bikes. That's what the seller calls it. LOL

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Ummm... forking awesome?

 

[Karate Chicken Industries]

James Hudson ought to be ashamed of himself for designing a bike with a backwards fork!

 

[Karate Chicken Industries]

Not a Nightmare for the right sized person: https://boulder.craigslist.org/bik/d/boulder-2020-mark-nobilette-custom/7369987538.html