There are plenty of second hand bikes on the market, and many a good deal can be had. But just how cheaply can you get a new bicycle? Manon is out exploring her local area for bargains, with just £50 cash to spend!
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30 Comments
Yes, picked up a Raleigh Big Horn mountain bike for $50 Canadian. I think it's probably early 1990s. Occasionally slips a gear, and tires are aged, but otherwise fully functioning. With a clean up and lubrication, it's fairly smooth, and cosmetically excellent.
Scott Team Racing in steel equipped with XT for 25€ was my best find so far 🙂
My father bought a bike for a mere $4. It was a racing bike like the one in your 100 pound video, in decent shape and I ride it even today. It had a bit of investing requred, but it was less than $15 in total
I got my current Crescent 24-speed hybrid from a shop in Helsinki that specialises in second-hand bikes. Mine was an ex-rental, a cast-off from their sister shop at the end of the season, sold at basically half the "new" price – and Crescent is a decent make. So far it's seen me through nearly 15 years of use. They also refurbish bikes that come to them as trade-ins.
The same shop currently has listed a variety of bikes at a variety of prices, all in guaranteed working order and with at least a few months of warranty – and most have mudguards and a luggage rack included. These include a Tunturi ladies' 3-speed, fairly old and with only a coaster brake, but well-built and useful for €145. You can of course find them cheaper if you're willing to forego the warranty…
there are people who sell their bikes just to get rid of them……there are also people who sell their bike to make money
I got a BMX for £30 and a mountain bike for £40 on gumtree but on the other scale a Carrera virtuoso for £250 at a local bike shop which only was a couple of miles old so vertiually brand new.
First rule: check every centimeter (or inch) of the frame … because that is the only part you cannot replace
I got myself a new ladies mountain bike for £55 pounds
Manon picked all good stuff like Rick from Pawn Shop
Free
Posh early access, out in the public with only a producer, director, cameramen, and makeup artist? So brave.
To to review this "carbon frame" bike off ebay. – BREEZE™ MENS ROAD BIKE 21 SPEED 26 INCH WHEEL CARBON FRAME MOUNTAIN BIKE MTB
Always worth looking up bike refurbishment schemes if you're keen on a new set of cheap wheels!
Down Bristol way there's a prison there where they get the prisoners trained up as bike mechanics and such as rehabilitation – they take old donation bikes and such and do them right up, then sell them to the public on the weekend. Without a doubt worth a look as you're bound to find some little gems tucked away.
Been before and found a Dawes Galaxy circa mid 80's that looked like an absolute beauty, was going for about £450 I think. Not the cheapest, but for a bike many consider to be the Rolls Royce of touring, it was quite a find. Alas, I can only regret not taking her home with me 🙁
35 dollars on a schwinn cruiser.
The bike shown at 2:13 has steel rims on it's wheels…..Run away……..The bike at 3:31 has a 7800 Dura Ace triple crank on it. ……If I was still doing Time Trials, I'd grab that tubular Disc Wheel, in a second.
I got a 1983 Raleigh criterium with champagnolo brakes and shifters for free once, I rode it 20km home
93 Hard rock sport for 50 dollars, lady even delivered, bike worked perfectly, I just had to throw on a pair of pedals on it and fill the tires, reliably rode me forever basically
My Commuter bike / only full bike 😂 owes me £45
60€ in Belgrade
Ebay uk has AMAZING old school mountain bikes from £70-500 ,I bought a 2001 Marin Hawk Hill in MINT CONDITION, still on the original tyres/grips, must have been sat in a garage for two decade's, absolutely beautiful. 🙏🇬🇧
Straighten the wheels yourself, it's so easy to learn ,watch a few you tube video's and buy the correct spike spanner. It will save you a small fortune and takes minutes 🙏 that goes for changing crankset and forks ,its all so EASY.
I'm 5'7", will M be too big for me?
Couple weeks ago i bought a Giant defy adv 2 2013 full carbon for 150gbp and the guy even threw in a pair of cycling shoes my size aswell!!! What a bargain and she's mint!!
One purchase 4X BMX bicycles for $ 35.00 total 3X chromed Mongoose BMX bikes one with red parts, one with blue parts and one with gold parts and the best was a Black MSC MINI with red parts, it was had for $ 5.00. All these bikes only saw one weekend of use, a Grand mother bought these bicycles for her grand kids when they visited from there off to the Garage, I flipped the 3 mongooses for $ 250.00 a pop and the MSC I will still have in my possession.
70's MASI GRAN CRITERIUM frame set $ 5.00 Bike was parted out for a build on to an ALAN, Sad that this guy decided to part out his dad MASI for an ALAN.
Too cheap … Grt value for money
Found a Triumph Mystique for $35 CAD. From memory, those bikes were sold at Walmart in the ending 90s in the $100 range. When I bought it, it has regular wear but all the rest was good. For such cruiser bike, it could last another 30 years.
Four years ago I saw my neighbor push a like new 8 year old Schwinn Prelude Aluminum road bike to the curb and returned with a Free sign. I took it and still ride it today, only add a new tube every now and then.
Leave it to Manon to find a diamond in the rough! And boy is it rough 😀👍I kid I kid. Thats actually a beautiful blue and whte contrast.
PLEASE use the letter G. It pleases me.
well not me but my mum back in 2005 when I was a kid bought me and my sisters a bike for a pack of cigarettes from my neighbour who's son moved in with his dad… gotta love humble skint childhoods on a council estate up north 😂