Cycle 'Carboot' Style Sales
Bunneh
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Do these things even exist?
There's plenty of computer fairs, car part fairs, amateur radio fairs etc but I have never seen a bicycle fair. I know there's 'events' but they're full of over priced stuff from proper cycle shops/firms - that I am not interested in. I'd love to see a similar environment as the car part sales, old greasy parts, old frames etc going at good prices. Be kind of cool to wander around those places looking at the old parts.
Of course we'd have to have some proper cycle peeps there, some will want to look at shinies and the cycle shops would bring in more peeps. Just the prospect of picking up cheap parts to build another bike gives me a semi...
There's plenty of computer fairs, car part fairs, amateur radio fairs etc but I have never seen a bicycle fair. I know there's 'events' but they're full of over priced stuff from proper cycle shops/firms - that I am not interested in. I'd love to see a similar environment as the car part sales, old greasy parts, old frames etc going at good prices. Be kind of cool to wander around those places looking at the old parts.
Of course we'd have to have some proper cycle peeps there, some will want to look at shinies and the cycle shops would bring in more peeps. Just the prospect of picking up cheap parts to build another bike gives me a semi...
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Yeah such a thing exists, they're called cycle jumbles (imaginative name, eh?). However, the rise and rise of eBay means two things:
1) You won't get any bargains - either they weren't there in the first place, or someone has got in there before you and bought them all up to put on eBay later and make more money.
2) These things are more and more organised and frequented by the kind of old technophobe who won't use eBay - which means you're much more likely to find a worn-out 1953 Campagnolo Gran Sport jockey wheel than you are a pair of nearly new ergo levers...
About 6 or 7 years ago, I went to a cycle jumble at Manchester Velodrome and was able to put together a complete training bike for 100 quid. I doubt I'd be able to buy the frame for that much these days...
There are still some out there though... I don't think you'd find enough at one to get excited enough to give you a 'semi' though.0 -
Fenland Clarion usually have one in October... have a look at their web for more info.0
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jimmythecuckoo wrote:Fenland Clarion usually have one in October... have a look at their web for more info.
indeed they do, I believe this is it:
October 9th
St Andrews Hall, Parkinsons Lane, Whittlesey, Peterborough
Buyers: 13.00
Contact: Martin Green 01733 206627
and you can find a whole load of them here
http://www.campyoldy.co.uk/events.htm
- but as you can see from the website name, I refer you to point two of my previous post (although it's a website, so maybe not the technophobe bit, but certainly the old parts bit)0
