Used Bikes

Torelli 20th Anniversary bike

20th Anniversary Torelli road bike

It might take an extra second or two, but I’d bet that people who are color blind can still figure out where this racing bike was built.

This is a very Italian Torelli racing bike built in 2002 to commemorate the 20 years that had passed for Torelli in the bicycle design and import business.

Would you believe that Fausto Torelli, a wizened old hermit living in the Dolomite mountains forged the bike frame from spent shell casings left over from World War II?
No? Good. That kind of mythology does nothing to convey the fabulous blend of new technology, refined materials and decades of experience that went into the construction of this bike.

Mondonico steel fork

Torelli badge

Campagnolo Chorus parts

Antonio Mondonico silver-brazed the Columbus EL nivacrom steel tubing into custom lugs following a trip to Torelli dealers in the United States. While on the trip, customers for this limited batch of 100 bikes were sized up, their component preferences were noted, and their tolerance for flashy Italian flag-themed paint jobs was measured.

Antonio’s autograph

20 years, 1981 to 2001

Number 2 of 100

Torelli, an importer dealing with any bike related items that are particularly fantastic, helped with the parts. The drivetrain is all Campy Chorus. The Campagnolo Chorus parts kit eschewed carbon fiber, instead proudly boasting the cold-forged aluminum construction that made the Italian brand so iconic.

Modular hubs

Torelli stem, Cinelli tape

Chorus post, Torelli saddle

The hubs, built in Italy and re-labeled as Torelli, are amazing. Besides spinning smoothly and holding the wheels together like good hubs are supposed to, these things have flanges that screw off so that colors can be changed and spoke counts can be different without buying new parts.

The rest of the parts are a showcase of the great stuff that Bill McGann (the Torelli founder) could source from Italy and other cycling hotbeds. There are Torelli-badged tires (probably made by Vittoria), Torelli saddle (Selle San Marco or Selle Italia), and Cinelli bar tape. The wheels are made with Torelli rims (made by Ambrosio), and a stem that looks an awful lot like a Ritchey to us.

If you’re 5’10” to 6’ tall (this bike has a 58cm frame) you may want to buy this awesome Italian gem. It’s only $2400 now. We may even be able to find the commemorative jersey that goes with it.

Used Schindelhauer urban racer

This is a German Schindelhauer urban bike. It’s designed to get you around town quickly and with style. The whole bike is made from really light and highly engineered aluminum tubing. The seat tube has an aerodynamic cutout to tuck the wheel in tight, and it comes with matching fenders.
You get 8 gears housed within the Shimano Alfine rear hub, there’s a Gates belt instead of a (potentially rusty) chain, and a seatpost with integrated rear lights.

drivetrain detail

Gates belt

Integrated tail light

This is a large bike, and will fit someone 5’10′ to 6’1″ tall the best. New, this would have run you around $2000, get it now for only $1299 with a year warranty and one free tune-up from us.

Used 2017 Specialized Epic Expert carbon 29’er

Epic Expert carbon 29’er

This is a really awesome full suspension mountain bike.

It’s a pretty sweet ride, with a carbon fiber main frame, Rockshox Sid/Specialized Brain suspension, Roval Control carbon fiber 29” wheels and high-end components, but the really awesome part about this bike is that the old owner wanted a new bike for his daughter. So while she’s cruising around on her new bike, you can be out shredding the trails on this virtually brand new rig. The tires, cassette, derailleurs, brakes, chain, crankset, shifters, fork (everything that is usually beat up on used Mountain bikes) is in new condition here.
The components are all very high-end. There’s the Sram Eagle 1 x 12 drivetrain, Specialized Command carbon dropper seatpost, Raceface stem and carbon bars, Specialized brain suspension (the suspension shuts down when the going is smooth and activates when the trail gets rough), the hydraulic disc brakes are powerful and light, and the carbon 29” wheels are fast.

The bike is a medium to large size. It has a 18″ frame and 29″ wheels, so it will fit a rider between 5’7″ and 5’11″ tall really well. This fabulous rig cost $6500 when it was new. Now it’s a used bike and can be yours for only $3199.

Used Faraday Porteur electric bike

Used Faraday Porteur

If you’re going to go with a motor-assist bike, it might as well be one that’s pretty.

This is a nearly new Faraday Porteur electric bike that was just traded in on an acoustic bike. The batteries are fresh, there are two chargers (one for at home and one for at work), there’s a cargo rack that can handle a lot of stuff and with a motor to help you along, you can handle carrying all of your stuff too. The bike has integrated lights, wooden fenders, a comfortable upright riding position and hydraulic disc brakes.

This is a large size bike, so it will fit someone over 5’7” tall the best. New it will run you $3500 (more starting June 1 with the added tariffs on Bafang motors and Chinese-made bicycles). Buy this one very lightly used for only $1850 with a free tune-up and a one-year warranty.

Used Charge Plug commuter/gravel/touring bike

Used 56cm Charge Plug $799

While we have to call this a “used” bike as it was just traded in, It’s new enough that you can probably still find it new from Charge bikes…

This is called the Plug, a touring/gravel/commuter bike from the UK bike company Charge.

Like a lot of touring rigs you get a cromoly steel frame with a whole bunch of attachment points for racks, fenders, stuff sacks and bottle cages. Like most gravel bikes you have clearance to fit wide tires, in this case you could roll around on 40mm wide knobbies if the mood strikes you. Like all good commuter bikes this one comes with disc brakes and durable drivetrain parts (FSA Gossamer compact crank, Shimano Sora derailleurs).

This is a 56cm frame size and should fit a rider between 5’8” and 5’10” tall the best. Brand new we’d be talking around $1500 for this bike. Buy it now with a year warranty and one free tune-up for only $799.

Used kids’ bikes

Rookie 20 in salmon

Used Trek Mt 220

Reid Roadster 20

Fuji Dynamite 24

Jet 20 in black

Jet 20s in black

Used Trek Jet 16 $129

Novara $119

Used Hotrock 12 $99

Used Mt 60 in blue

Used Strider 16

24” road bike $99

Used balance bike

We have a trade-up program for kids’ bikes, therefore we have used kids’ bikes for you to buy.

The selection varies, so check in here or visit the store to see what we have on hand.

Bikes with 12” wheels are for the littlest kids, usually 3 year olds. Bikes with 16” wheels work for the 4 to 5 year age range, 20” bikes for 5 to 7 year olds, and 24” wheeled biked take 7 or 8 year old kids all the way to 12 years (usually around 4’10” in height, at which point they graduate to adult bikes that are measured by frame size, not wheel size.

These bikes are usually ones that we originally sold, and lots of them even come with the original warranty.

We tune-up each bicycle to make sure that they are safe and ready for the next child to enjoy. Some bikes have new parts, and we stand behind all of our used bikes with a one year warranty.

Used Specialized Rockhopper

Used Rockhopper $329

Here’s a nice bike for getting around town or the trails. It’s an old Specialized mountain bike Rockhopper model. The parts are all in great shape (mostly Shimano Deore and Alivio components), and a number of items are brand new. There are new brake pads, chain, cassette, bottom bracket and grips
This bike has off-road tires on it that still roll pretty smoothly on the pavement, and it’s all ready for urban utility work by installing a rack and fenders, or off-road riding as it sits. A nice old mid-level mountain bike, all yours for $329.

To be comfortable on this bike, you’ll need to be between 5’3″ and 5’7″ tall.

Serotta Fierte Cross

Used Serotta Fierte Cross$1399

Over the course of thirty years Ben Serotta developed an enviable reputation. His name was thrown around with the likes of bicycle master craftsmen Ernesto Colnago, Koichi Yamaguchi and Ugo De Rosa. When big-league racing teams needed bikes and their sponsors weren’t up to the task, Ben was the guy that they called. Remember the 7-Eleven team and their “Huffy” brand bikes? Those were Serotta frames. Remember the Coors Light team? They rode Serotta frames. If you had a lot of cash and happened to be a bike guy, Ben was the guy you called. Former Secretary of State John Kerry has a Serotta. Conan O’Brian rides a Serotta. Robin Williams had a handful of Serottas in his vast bike collection.

This bike happens to be for sale. It’s a medium to large size bike, with a 56cm top tube, so you’ll want to be 5’9″ to 6′ tall to ride it comfortably. If you are in the right height range and happen to have $1400 burning a hole in your pocket then lucky you.  $1400 may seem like a lot for a used bike, but remember the price tag is on a used Serotta, not a Specialized.   This new condition Serotta is outfitted with a Sram Rival component group. It has Mavic Aksium wheels, a 175mm compact gear range crankset, Ritchey cyclocross tires, Ritchey Pro bars, stem, and seatpost.

Used Trek Emonda ALR

Used 54cm Rmonda ALR $949

If you’re looking for a good road bike and you happen to be between 5’6 and 5’8″ tall, we have a deal for you.
This is a Trek Emonda, which is a really light and well built road bike. Brand new this bike would cost around $1700. Since this one is used, we’re selling it for only $949.
This particular bike is about 2 model years old and it’s the 54cm size. It has been tuned-up and comes with probably 200 miles on the frame and parts. The components are from the (current) Shimano Tiagra group. The frame is made from butted aluminum tubing and you get a matching carbon fiber fork.

Used Pure City city bike

Used Pure City 3-speed

It’s not old… It’s Classic.

This is a new city bike from… Pure City Bicycles. It’s new, but it’s built like something from our museum. The frame is made out of steel tubing, the saddle looks like an old one that is made out of leather, the grips are cork and there’s a rack on the back. What’s more is that there are 3 gears (it has a 3-speed hub shifter) and the bike comes with a kickstand, fenders and a bell.

All yours for only $249.

Used Raleigh RXC Disc

Used Raleigh RXC carbon $1099

This is probably going to be gone really soon.

This Raleigh has great parts, a carbon fiber frameset, and a fantastic price.

You get fabulous Mavic wheels and Clement PDX cross tires.  The wheels are lighter and more durable (better designed hub internals) with wider rims than the original stock wheels.  The wide rims support and take full advantage of the tread on your tires. This RXC comes with Shimano Tiagra 10-speed shifting, with TRP Spyre brakes handling the stopping duties. 

Race the Seattle Cyclocross series on your new RXC, cruise Olympic penninsula logging roads, or pedal to work. All yours for $1099.

Bianchi 928 carbon

54cm Bianchi 928 carbon

Do you like to go fast with minimal effort? No. Don’t buy an electric bike, that’s cheating. Get an efficient road bike like this Bianchi and you’ll be amazed by how fast you can be on your own.

This Bianchi 928 was just traded in for a new touring bike. This one is about ten years old. It features an all carbon fiber frame and fork (made in Italy), Shimano Ultegra 10 speed derailleurs, an FSA carbon crankset and seatpost and a Fizik Aliante saddle.

This bike is just a hair under 16 pounds as it sits.

Coast 2 coast

Carbon cranks, Ultegra derailleurs

Powertap hub

For the rider who’s serious about getting faster, this bike comes equipped with an essential training tool: A power meter. The rear DT rim is laced around a Powertap hub. The Powertap hub will accurately measure your wattage, and used in conjunction with a proper training plan it will teach you to use your legs more efficiently and/or train them more effectively.

Bianchi crest

Fizik saddle

Made in Italy

The details: this Bianchi 928 is a 54cm frame size, and it will fit a rider between 5’6” and 5’8” tall the best. The frame is from one of the last years that this model was still made in Italy, and we’ll give the whole bike a one year warranty. When this bike was brand new it would have cost you $3600 to walk out of the door with it. Today, it’s only $1650.

Used Specialized Expedition

Used Specialized Expedition $329

This Specialized Expedition is designed for you to just hop on and go riding.

The bike is meant to be ridden comfortably in regular clothing.  The seat has ample cushion, so there is no need for padded bike shorts.  The grips feel right without gloves, and the chainguard keeps your pants from getting snagged in the works.  An upright position and stable handling makes this bike work well for a new bike rider or someone who wants to pay attention to the scenery, not to their aching neck.

The Expedition uses bigger cruiser-sized tires (think mountain bike tires, but smoother) to give the bike a soft and stable ride.

A lot of people think that they want a beach cruiser bike for roaming around the neighborhood.  A great idea, but beach cruisers are not ideal for the Puget Sound region.  Beach cruisers typically have a single speed (which makes it tough to climb up hills), swept-back bars (which make the bike hard to control if you get up out of the saddle) and coaster brakes (which don’t offer enough stopping power on hilly terrain or wet streets).  Don’t buy a beach cruiser.  Buy this Specialized. It’s in great condition, and it’ll cost you a lot less than new, only $329.

Used titanium “Schwinn” gravel bike

Sandvik “Schwinn” titanium

Here’s an interesting bike.

This is a 650b-wheeled gravel bike built out of Sandvik titanium tubes in Kennewick Washington. It has all kinds of great parts (some new, some used) including a carbon fiber fork, King headset, Continental 650b tires, WTB saddle, Race Face seatpost, Avid BB7 disc brakes and a Shimano Deore 2 x 10 drivetrain.

The handlebars are interesting. They’re the Surly Moloko model, a multi-position upright bar similar to a Jones bar.

The rack is interesting. It’s integrated into the frame and uses a unique cantilever design for its structural support.

The decals and head badge are from a late ‘70’s Schwinn Sprint road bike, but the bike isn’t from 1970’s Chicago, instead it came from Kennewick Washington about 20 years ago.

Interested? This bike will wit a rider between 5’9” and 6’ tall the best, and it’s only $1599.

Used Litespeed Tuscany

Used 52cm Litespeed Tuscany

Jealous of all of the tall people who have been buying sweet pre-owned titanium road bikes from our shop? Let the jealousy melt away! We finally got a good trade-in from a roadie under 5’8”!

This is a Litespeed Tuscany from the early 2000’s. It’s a 52cm frame size and will fit someone between 5’4” and 5’7” tall really well. The shiny titanium frame comes decked out with Shimano Ultegra components and rolls around on Mavic Ksyrium wheels.

When this bike was brand new it would have cost around $3200. It can be all yours today for only $1599.

Used Salsa Casseroll touring bike

Salsa Casseroll $849

Here it is. The gold standard of loaded touring bikes, the Salsa Casseroll.
This bike is designed to handle predictably whether it’s packed up with 70 pounds of gear or stripped down like you see it. It’s equipped with components that will perform reliably for years under the worst conditions.
The steel frame was made in Taiwan, the gearing was selected to handle the Rocky Mountains, and the bike will accommodate Pacific Northwest fenders.
This bike is a 59cm size, and it should fit a rider between 5’10” and 6’2” quite well. When new this bike cost about $1800. Buy it now with a full year warranty for only $849.

Used fun (and reliable) transportation

Okay, this section doesn’t contain the most exciting bikes (if you judge bikes by current marketing buzzwords) but they have a lot of fun features to offer:

Single-speed $149

Used Hardrock

1949 Schwinn $149

Novara Aspen $199

These bikes are easy to afford! Every bike in this section is less than $200 (or what you currently spend on Uber and Lime rental bikes in two months).

These bikes are fast and easy to ride (again, these bikes average about half the weight of a Lime bike).

Nobody is likely to steal one of these (paint chips and old styling save the day)!

These bikes work! All of our used bikes get a complete overhaul before we sell them. Worn-out parts are replaced, and we stand behind our used bikes with a full year warranty.

Used Charge Cooker 1 mountain bike

Used Charge Cooker 1 $979

This British Charge hardtail just crushes tight singletrack with great handling front-end geometry. You would think that the rigid front fork would leave you with squirrely handling, but in reality the meaty 27.5 x 2.8″ tires and dropper seatpost give you plenty of comfort and control as you roll over roots and rocks.
This one has a KS dropper seatpost, TRP hydraulic disc brakes, RaceFace cockpit components and the Shimano Deore 1 x 10 drivetrain.
This one is in new condition, really brand new.
It’s a medium size (good for a rider 5’5”-5’8” tall)
$979 with a free 90-day tune up and a year warranty.

Used Giant Defy Aluxx SL

Used Giant Defy $599

This is a used road bike from Giant’s Defy series of aluminum bikes. It’s light, comfortable, fast and user friendly. It comes well-equipped with reliable Shimano 105 and Tiagra parts as well as Shimano SPD pedals. The frame is designed so that it feels fast, but not too fast. Like most good sport bikes you can expect predictable and stable handling. The 105 components give you ten gear choices with the rear derailleur, and the bike has two chainrings up front on the FSA compact crankset. Light weight materials in the components and the front fork give you more speed with less effort as you ride than with other entry-level bikes.

This is a medium sized version designed for a rider between 5’6″ and 5’8″ tall, and it’s going for $599 (about half of what it would have been brand new) with a full year warranty and one free tune-up.

Used Trek SLR Road Bike

Used 62cm Trek SLR $599

If you’re looking for a good road bike and you happen to be over 6′ tall, we have a great option for you.
This is a Trek SLR, which is a really versatile and well built road bike. Brand new this bike would cost around $1600. Since this one is used, we’re selling it for only $599.
This particular bike is about 10 model years old and it’s the 62cm size. It has been tuned-up and comes with Shimano 105 drivetrain parts. The chain, cassette, bottom bracket and rear derailleur pulleys are fresh. The crank is a double, so you get 18 gears in total, and the bike also comes with a carbon fiber seatpost. The frame is made from butted aluminum tubing and you get a matching carbon fork.

Used Specialized Ruby Expert

Ruby Expert Di2

This is a fairly new medium-sized Specialized Ruby Expert. It’s built around a comfortable, light and fast carbon fiber frameset. For parts you get Shimano Ultegra Di2 electronic shifting, DT Swiss wheels, a Specialized Jett saddle, carbon seatpost and a flat-top handlebar. A very high-performance bike, this one would have run about $5000 dollars when it was brand new.

This medium size bike (with a 53cm top tube) is most appropriate for a rider between 5’5″ and 5’8″ tall. You can grab this one before someone else snags it for only $2499

1997 Bontrager Privateer Comp

Bontrager Privateer Comp

Take a trip back to 1997 on this Bontrager Privateer.

This is a light, nimble and efficient mountain bike. Nimble and efficient aren’t attributes ascribed to many mountain bikes these days. New mountain bikes have gone the way of the monster truck, with suspension and tire sizes that simply crush trail obstacles instead of making it fun to pick your way around and over the rocks and roots.
Consider this bike like you would a new “Gravel Bike”. Think of yourself riding out of your driveway, down the street a mile or so to the trailhead. Logging roads and “easy” trails are still in play on a bike like this one, not boring stretches that have to be endured until you get to the downhill (like on your 6″ travel full suspension enduro bike). When you do get to the stretch of technical trails you can relive the white-knuckle exhilaration that we all used to feel while riding our ’90′s era mountain bikes OR you can simply slow down and take the park trails at speeds that won’t get your (or the bike’s) abilities overextended.

This old Bontrager is in great shape. It has fresh brakes and drivetrain parts (Shimano Deore XT), and the wheels and tires look new,.

Anyway, this is a medium size bike (18″) and will work best for a rider between 5’6″ and 5’8″ tall. It’s all yours for $749

Used 54cm Orbea Orca carbon

Orbea Orca $1199

A carbon fiber Orbea Orca with Shimano Dura-Ace components for $1199. Your reason for wanting the brand new aluminum bike with Sora equipment was the disc brakes? Let’s think about this.

The new bike with disc brakes weighs 26 pounds. This one weighs 16. The new bike has an aluminum frame that’s plenty stiff, almost the same as this Orbea, but it doesn’t have the shock absorption or the long-term durability of carbon fiber. New Shimano Sora parts work pretty well, almost as well as ten-year-old Dura-Ace, but you only get 8 gears on the back wheel, not 10.
The point is: why not buy a used bike? You get a lot more for the money. This one has new cables, bar tape, chain, cassette, saddle, brakes and tires. This bike is a 54cm size, so it’s about right for a rider between 5’5″ and 5’8″ tall. It comes with a year warranty and it’s only $1199.

Used Specialized Tarmac

Used 58cm Tarmac $1699

When your doctor tells you that you need to be getting more fiber, do you think that more carbon fiber is what she means?

This carbon fiber Specialized Tarmac will certainly improve your health if you ride it enough.

This is a ten year old Tarmac model that is outfitted with all of the goodies. With this bike you get Mavic Ksyrium Elite wheels, Shimano Dura-Ace components, an FSA carbon crankset and Specialized carbon fiber bars, stem and seatpost. The whole bike is in pretty fresh condition and it has new brake pads, chain and tires.

carbon stem and bars

Dura-Ace and FSA

FSA carbon post

The frame is a 58cm size and it will fit a rider between 5’10″ and 6’1″ tall really well. It’ll come with a full year warranty and a free tune-up. The best thing is that it’s half the original price at only $1699.

Used Giant Cadex road bike

Used carbon Giant $499

This is a 54cm Giant Cadex 980 road bike from the ’90′s.

The frame is made from lightweight carbon fiber that is bonded into aluminum lugs.   The fork is aluminum, and you get a Shimano 105 component group that is in great condition.  The wheels are in great shape and the tires are basically new.  The saddle, cables, brake pads, bar tape, chain and bottom bracket are in new condition.  The bike rides great, is super-light, and looks cool.

The bike doesn’t have very many miles on it, and was recently traded in for a mountain bike.

This Giant weighs 19 pounds as it sits.  It will ideally fit a rider between 5’5″ and 5’8″ tall and it’s only $399.

1989 Ritchey Ascent Comp

1989 Ritchey Ascent Comp

I have always been a Ritchey fan.

Just like the road bike aficionado who fell into Colnago, De Rosa, Pinarello or Eddy Merckx camps, early mountain bikers tended to be Gary Klein, Tom Ritchey, Gary Fisher or Salsa (Ross Schafer) boosters. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you rode one of these bikes, it just means that you wanted to.

To be a Ritchey fan meant an appreciation for early West-Coast mountain bike design. Elements like slack head tube angles, forks with a lot of rake, oversized (and force-directional) Japanese steel tubing, wide Bullmoose handlebars and fillet-brazed frame joints are all in fact either Ritchey firsts or ideas that Tom championed.

XT Thumb shifters

Front end

Deore XT M732

This Ascent Comp is a beautiful example of late ’80′s mountain bike cool. The bike rides smoothly over rough trails thanks to the aforementioned force-directional Tange steel tubing and slack frame angles. There’s no bullmoose-style handlebar, but there is a Ritchey Force stem with an integrated cable hanger and a 22″ wide Force bar. The components are all modern marvels.

Built by Tom

Back end

Deore XT M732

The Shimano Deore XT M732 shifters are indexed (7 speeds in the back!), the brake levers operate with two fingers instead of your whole hand, the rear hub holds a cassette of cogs instead of a screw-on freewheel, and the chainrings are oval Biopace shape (or were. We changed them out for round ones).
This bike is also outfitted with the original Shimano off-road clipless pedal, the M-737. No toe clips? We’re probably more nostalgic about old bikes than anyone, but toe clips and straps were awful, so a vintage SPD pedal for your vintage mountain bike is really the best way to go.

If you’re a Ritchey fan like we are, this bike can be yours. This Ascent Comp is a 20″ size, so it’ll fit a rider between 5’7″ and 5’10″ the best. It’s in great shape and it’s about half the price that you’ll find on Ebay for something similar at only $1399

Used 56cm Colnago C50

Used 56cm Colnago C50 $3000

Here is another Colnago C50 trade-in. This is one is a traditional (horizontal top tube) 56cm size, well suited for a rider in the 5’9” to 5’11” height range.

This one comes equipped with a Campagnolo Record component group with a compact crankset. You get carbon fiber all over the place with carbon crankarms, shifters, and derailleur pieces. Since this all-black frame has a somewhat traditional look to it, the traditionally styled wheels with Campy Record hubs laced into Mavic Open Pro ceramic rims are a good match.

Record ergo levers

C50 front end

Carbon stem

Record calipers

Record parts

Mavic Open Pro rims

The cockpit components include an FSA headset, Specialized S-Works carbon stem, Cinelli bars, Campagnolo Chorus titanium seatpost and a Fizik Arione Kurve saddle.

This bike can be had for $3000 (again, about $5000 less than brand new). It comes with a year warranty from the shop and a personal lifetime guarantee that you’ll never ride a better road bike than this one.

Used Cinelli Saetta Carbon

Cinelli carbon $1399

Wow, if you’re 5’8″-5’11″ tall and you’re looking for a high performance road bike, your options are pretty good at the shop right now.

Adding to the vintage Torelli, the Colnagos and the used Giant carbon we now have a 56cm Cinelli Saetta carbon that was just traded in.

The bike is in great shape.  The beautiful carbon frame sports a Shimano 105 component group along with a carbon seat post, Cinelli ti rail saddle and an FSA Gossamer crankset. Brand new this bike sold for $2300.  If you have $1399 burning a hole in your pocket, this cool Italian carbon bike can be yours today.

Used Colnago C50

Used Colnago C50 $2799

We actually have 3 pre-owned Colnago C50s right now.  No kidding.

Bikes that we have described as being “the best ever made” and people traded their beloved Colnagos in?

Well, sometimes you just have too many bikes in the garage.

So our first version is a 54cm frame size bike from 2004.

The hand-built Italian carbon fiber frame is outfitted with a Sram Red component group and comes with a new cassette, chainrings and chain as well as a new saddle, cables, handlebar tape and brake lever hoods.

You get really new Zipp 101 clincher wheels (with tires that are still pretty fresh), a green Chris King headset, an FSA carbon fiber handlebar (42cm) and a Thomson seatpost.

The best

FSA carbon bars

Sram Red components

Chris King headset

Sram Red

New cassette and chain

This 54cm bike fits a rider between 5’6” and 5’8” the best. It comes with a full year warranty from Classic Cycle, and a personal lifetime guarantee that it’s awesome.

The bike weighs in at 14 1/2 pounds, and it’s all yours for $2800 (that’s $5000 less than what this puppy would have cost brand new).

Used Cannondale Synapse

Used 54cm Cannondale Synapse

A Cannondale Synapse road bike that’s under $1000! This Cannondale is from 2013, and it’s made out of butted aluminum tubing and feather-light carbon fiber. It’s outfitted with Shimano 105 20-speed components and Mavic wheels. It’s a pretty sporty bike and it has high-performance parts all around. There’s a carbon-fiber seat post, Shimano SPD clipless pedals and an FSA compact crankset. The Schwalbe Ultrimo tires are nearly brand new.

The frame is Cannondale’s medium size (54cm) and will fit a rider between 5’6″ and 5’9″ pretty well. $749 and it’s all yours.

1997 Bontrager Race Lite

Vintage Bontrager Race Lite

It probably isn’t fair to Trek, but there is a group of modern classic bikes today that hold their value better simply because they came along “Before Trek ruined things”.

Have an old Klein mountain or road bike? The versions that were made before Trek took over the company are worth a lot more than the ones that came after.

Looking for a LeMond racing bike? You’re probably interested in finding a LeMond-badged bike that TVT, Clark Kent or Calfee made, not something that Trek produced following their mid-‘90’s deal with Greg.

Vintage Gary Fisher mountain bikes are almost all pre-Trek, as the label was killed off almost immediately after Trek hired/merged with/bought out Gary Fisher.

Marzocci Bomber

1997 Deore XT

Bontrager dropouts

Keith Bontrager’s bikes? Pre-Trek Bontragers have certainly held their value better than anything Bontrager-badged after being hired/bought out by Trek in 1995. There are a couple of transition years, however, where the Bontrager frame shop in Santa Cruz operated under the Trek umbrella and still produced some fabulous bikes.
Really, Keith Bontrager is the only bike industry icon that survived a Trek takeover with his legacy pretty much intact.

Bontrager is a brilliant engineer who came into the bike world from motorcycles in the late ‘70’s. Utilizing his experience as a motocross mechanic (and his physics degree), Bontrager bikes began with custom mountain bike rims and steel frames. Bontrager steel frames have strong joints augmented by load-distributing gussets and sometimes with mechanically joined (via rivets & glue) attachment points for derailleurs, cables or bottle cages instead of brazing. This was an attempt to reduce the weakening effect of repeatedly heating and cooling the steel tubing when welding these areas. Bontrager’s frames had seat stays made with larger diameter tubing in the upper area which added torsional stiffness around the brake-bosses joined to lighter and more flexible tubing below the brakes to add greater bump compliance.

V-brakes

Tubing gussets

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This bike came out of Keith’s Santa Cruz workshop during the early years of his work with Trek. It’s built of steel tubing (naturally), and displays all of the signature Bontrager reinforcements and design touches. The Shimano Deore XT equipment, Marzocci coil-sprung Bomber fork, USE suspension seat post and the low, flat handlebars are all popular mountain bike specs of the era.

Today, Bontrager’s name is stamped on most of the parts and accessories made by the Trek company. Keith probably still has a hand in designing a fair amount of the components (their handlebars and wheels are brilliant) but we doubt Keith has any say in the design of Bontrager cycling socks, bells or baskets.

Always wanted a steel Bontrager mountain bike? Now’s your chance. This one is available (18.5” frame, for a 5’7”-5’9” rider), and it’s only $799.

Used 61cm DeBernari Road Bike

61cm De Bernardi

How about a nice Italian road bike?

If you’re between 6’ and 6’4” tall, we have a good option for you. This is a DeBernardi road bike that was new sometime in the late 1980’s. It has a mix of Campagnolo components on it, Veloce derailleurs and shifters from about 1991 with a Record crankset and bottom bracket that are from the late 1990’s.

The handlebars and stem are real gems. They’re Modolo Master SSC models, really the coolest stuff you could have put on your bike 30 years ago.

DeBernardi badge

Modolo SSC

Frame detail

Record crankset

Regal style saddle

Veloce

The frameset displays some great construction techniques from DeBernardi, a frame builder with a reputation for perfect alignment and nice finishing work. The frame tubing is Columbus SLX cromoly pipes that are silver brazed into custom lugs. Nice work all around.

If you’re tall enough to ride it, it’s yours. Only $849

1991 Trek 8700 Pro

1991 Trek 8700 Pro

This should be a bike that fuels your imagination.

A top tier mountain bike from 1991. But not just any mountain bike from that year, a Trek 8700 Pro.
The 8700 was built in Trek’s Wisconsin workshop out of “graphite composite tubes” (the industry hadn’t settled on “carbon fiber” yet in 1991 and were still trying out words like “composite” and “graphite” to see what would become the common label). Those tubes were joined with epoxy to aluminum stays and an aluminum head tube.

Tioga T-Bone stem

The original Rock Shox fork

Turbo Special saddle

The fork is the original Rock Shox model, an air-pressure sprung invention with machined aluminum legs that turned out to be quite durable (30 years later this one still works). The Suntour XC Pro drivetrain (3 x 7 gears), Dia-Compe 986 cantilever brakes, Shimano M737 pedals, Bullseye hubs and Selle Italia’s “Turbo Special” saddle meant business. Fast business.

On the cusp of a technological revolution for mountain bikes, this 1991 model was meant to be a game changer. Lighter, smoother and faster than anything that had come before. According to Trek, this was a bike that would not only win races but it would also win your heart.

Bullseye hubs

Suntour XC Pro

Dia-Compe cantilevers

We get it, but thirty years later we’re imagining this bike in a different way. The mountain bike revolution has happened, and all sorts of technologies have surpassed the first steps taken here. The neon orange paint, once meant to be modern and hip like an episode of Miami Vice (or maybe a Cosby sweater) is back again but today it’s as a safety feature to keep mountain bikers from being shot at in the woods during hunting season or to help get noticed by distracted drivers while on the road.

Times change.

“Graphite Composite”

Rock Shox RS-1

Keep this bike in mind while you consider doing the Cascadia Super Gravel race or a Gravel Gran Fondo across Kansas. A bike like this would be perfect for riding one of these new events. Then again, a mountain bike race on an antique would be so much fun! Imagine doing one of the Northwest Epic mountain bike races on a bike older than the winning rider! You’ll score yourself more free swag than he’ll get, we’re pretty sure.

Then again, imagine this bike hanging in your rec room next to the neon Fat Tire Ale sign…

Seriously. Think about it. We’re selling this medium-size fun machine for only $991

1980 Bob Jackson

1980 Bob Jackson custom

Italian and French racing bikes have always had a fair amount of prestige. There’s no denying their cycling pedigree. Keep in mind though, when you think about the most famous racers and their bikes from the last century, they weren’t all Italian or French. The British have had some fantastic bicycle builders and great racers and racing stories to tell as well.

Raleigh, known for their city bikes as much as racing bikes, lead the pack simply by backing the TI-Raleigh racing team of the late ‘70’s. Craft labels like Claud Butler, Hetchins, Bates, BSA, Jack Taylor, Trevor Jarvis and the Flying Scots were all present and have all played a part in the British cycling epic.

Campagnolo housing stop

Record crankset

Campy bar-end shifters

Bob Jackson bicycles started rolling in 1935 when J. Robert. Jackson opened “J.R.J. Cycles”. There was a short gap in the company history as Bob served in the Royal Air Force during WWII, and then his brand really developed in the post war years with bikes labeled as “Merlins” and “JRJ Cycles”. These bikes were well crafted, as fine as anything an amateur cyclist could have ridden from the continent. Bob Jackson’s work came in a few different guises. If you ride an old Hetchins frame you may be enjoying some of Bob’s handiwork as he did some contract constuction for Hetchins as well as other British brands.

“Il Primo Extra Giro di Sicilia”

Record calipers

What else? A Nuovo Record derailleur

This is a custom Bob Jackson from around 1980. Like most enthusiast bikes from the time, this one is outfitted with Campagnolo Nuovo Record parts. British bikes always seem to have a custom touch or two that make them more practical bikes than others. Matching fenders or a custom rack or a light system. This bike has Campagnolo bar-end shifters instead of the standard downtube-mounted options, and it comes with a custom Silca pump.

That saddle looks like it needs to be tightened up a bit

Wood veneer wrapped head tube

Wood veneer wrapped Silca frame pump

Thin wood veneer is wrapped around the pump shaft and around the tall headtube of this bike, lending the bike sophistication not unlike that of a wooden dashboard in a luxury car.

Jeff is selling this 63cm beauty. If you’re tall enough, this Bob Jackson custom can be yours for only $1000

1992 Trek 9500 Suspension Mountain Bike

1992 Trek 9500 mountain bike

As of today, mountain bikes have been around for only about thirty-five years.  Design-wise, there has been quite a bit of progress in that short amount of time.

This Trek 9500 from 1992 shows us some great leaps forward as well as some serious stumbles in mountain bike evolution.

Highlights include Shimano’s first edition XTR mountain bike component group.  The engineering was superb, the cold-forged components were built to last for decades, and this group included many fantastic features like rapid-fire trigger shifting that we still use today.

Trek’s DDS3 suspension fork had some nice touches too. It used a schraeder valve to fill the air chambers unlike Rock Shox’s needle valve of the time, and the adjustable air-sprung fork was closer to what we use now than the brief bike industry-wide foray into elastomer bumper forks.

DDS3 suspension fork

The donut stack was temperature sensitive

The first XTR derailleur

We’ll give Trek a small break as we describe the rear suspension design (since it was designed in 1991), but we still need to give the Wisconsin based company some grief. The spring unit attached to the swing arm was made out of urethane donuts… Which was obviously temperature sensitive… Which should have been clear to anyone designing a bike in a place that reaches 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer and twenty below zero in the winter. So obviously the rear suspension reacted differently in different weather. Sometimes it felt like a rigid frame (with something seriously wrong) and sometimes it felt like the tires had just gone flat (and wouldn’t spring back).

A long stretch

Front end detail

Trek badge

Overall, the bike bobbed a bit like an inch-worm with little spring rebound control and no suspension isolation from pedaling forces… But it was a decent first attempt.

This bike came from Reliable Cycle, our Classic Cycle satellite store in the Rolling Bay neighborhood on Bainbridge Island.  This bike was part of the regular inventory, and it got folded into the museum collection when the store closed in 1998.

Want to own one of Trek’s more embarrassing designs (with Shimano’s most beautiful XTR component groups on it)? All yours for $1500

Used Specialized Tarmac SL4

Used 56cm Tarmac SL4

We could probably call this a new bike and nobody would bat at eye.

It’s a Specialized Tarmac from 7 or 8 years ago.  It’s a large frame (56cm) and should fit someone between 5’9″ and 5’11″ quite well.  The frame is all carbon fiber, as is the stem, handlebars, seatpost and crankset.  Most of the components are Sram Red 22, and the wheels are Mavic Ksyrium SLs.  When this bike was brand new it would have gone for around $7500.

We think that the best thing about this Tarmac is that you don’t have to walk into a Specialized dealer’s bike shop to get it.  You can get it from us.

All yours for only $2499.

Used Colnago CX Zero

Used 52sl (56cm) CX Zero $2899

A Colnago that can handle fenders!

Well, that’s not really all that the CX Zero is about, but it is pretty awesome that you can put fenders on this bike and keep rolling through the winter around here.

The CX Zero was the bike that Ernesto Colnago developed in 2015 for his sponsored racing teams to use in the cobbled springtime classics.  Besides being designed around 28mm wide tires, the frame was built to absorb a tremendous amount of road shock.  The wheelbase is a tiny bit longer than the rest of Colnago’s line, so the ride is even more stable than the usually stellar Colnago design, and the position on the bike is just a little more comfortable with the CX Zero’s short top tube.

If you have always wanted a Colnago but have been afraid that you’d get a bike that is too racy or stiff, fear no more. While it’s true that this bike was designed with racing in mind (and it does handle like a real Colnago), this bike is easy on your body. Call it a racing bike for rough roads and bad backs.

The best thing? That this is a used bike that’s been traded in. the parts are terrific. It’s outfitted with a Sram force component group and Reynolds carbon wheels. The disc brakes are TRP hydraulic versions, and you get a Deda handlebar and stem.  Brand new this bike would have run $5600.  You can buy it now (still in nearly new condition) for $2899.

This is a 56cm size, so it will work best for a rider between 5’8″ and 5’10″ tall.

1988 Eddy Merckx Corsa

1988 Eddy Merckx Corsa

This Eddy Merckx Corsa is the absolute perfect bike for an American racing fan of a certain age. If you happened to be into bike racing in the 1980’s and early ‘90’s you already know why. For everyone else who wants to know, I’ll try to explain.

First of all, Eddy Merckx was the greatest bike racer who ever lived, and upon retiring from the circuit in 1980 Eddy started his eponymous bike brand. Eddy Merckx Cycles quickly became one of the most prestigious labels out there.

Now, if Eddy’s name and reputation wasn’t enough to draw you in, sponsorship of the Panasonic racing team in 1986 and 1987 might be. Panasonic was a Belgian team, true, but the team had Australian Phil Anderson on it, and during Greg LeMond’s 1987 absence from bike racing Phil was likely your guy.

“E” Merckx decals to avoid confusion with other guys named Merck out there

Flat-crown fork

Dura-Ace AX seatpost

It could be that in those years an American bike racing fan would get behind 7-Eleven Team riders Andy Hampsten or Davis Phinney. So what did 7-Eleven ride? You guessed it. 7-Eleven rode Eddy Merckx bikes (bikes that were outfitted with Shimano and Cinelli parts in almost exactly the same way as this one).

7400 front derailleur

Modern Dura-Ace

Dura-Ace 7400 derailleur

Of course, the paint on this bike isn’t 7-Eleven green & red, and it’s not quite Panasonic blue & white. Nope, this one is a patriotic American in red, white & blue (which is almost better).

Skip ahead to 1991 and the 7-Eleven team switches title sponsorship to become the Motorola team. The team bikes are this exact color scheme. Phil Anderson, Andy Hampsten, Davis Phinney and a young Lance Armstrong all ride bikes that look like this one. Perfect!

Cinelli XA stem, #66 bars

Non-aero brake cable option

Single-pivot brakes

Some other awesome things about this bike is of course the parts. It has Shimano Dura-Ace 7400 components that are modern and traditional at the same time. The parts are new enough to give you indexed shifting but the bike’s old enough that the shifters are still on the frame. You get a futuristic “aero” seatpost and the rear hub features the modern “cassette” freewheel option, but the handlebars and stem are classic Cinelli (classic because these models remained available for about 40 continuous years).

Downtube “click” shifting

Look’s original “clipless” pedals

The brake levers have the traditional cable-out-the-top routing, and the tires are sew-ups (the traditional racers’ choice) but the pedals changed the game. They’re the original Look ski-binding style that made toe-clips obsolete and were first introduced by Greg LeMond.

Sure, the frame is the “Corsa”, not the “Corsa Extra” that the more powerful racers used, but that’s alright. It’s built with the flexible Columbus SL tubing instead of the super stout SLX, a distinction that makes pretending you’re a pro all the more comfortable.

I lived and breathed bike racing in the ‘80’s and ‘90’s, and this bike would have been the perfect ride had I thought of it back then.

Are you 5’10”-6’ tall and a nostalgic bike racing fan? Buy this bike. You know you want it. Only $1988

Cannondale SR 800 road bike

Used Cannondale SR800 60cm $399

It’s been 25 years since this was the latest and greatest road bike that Cannondale had to offer, but all of those years haven’t diminished what is a fast and fun road bike.

This one is in new condition, with a Shimano 600 Ultegra component group that has almost no wear. You get a fairly light and stiff aluminum frame, and beautiful paint that won’t betray the bike’s age.

60cm size (with a 58cm top tube) Good for a rider who’s over 5’11” tall. $399

NUsed Raleigh Revenio Carbon

Used Revenio carbon $1199

How about a carbon fiber bike for the price of aluminum?

The frame geometry of this Revenio is similar to other “all day” carbon bikes (Fuji Gran Fondo, Scott Solace, Felt VR series), with a bit taller head tube than on Raleigh’s Militis race machines for better comfort.  You get smooth and solid Campagnolo Proton wheels with some added goodies like a Thomson seatpost, Selle Italia saddle and a Campagnolo Centaur component group.

This Revenio 3 was one of the bikes that we use for our road bike rentals.  It’s a 60cm frame so it will ride really well for someone between 5’11″ and 6’3″ tall. Only $1099!

1990 American M-16

1990 American Bicycle Manufacturing (ABM) M-16

American Bicycle Manufacturing was a brand that made beautiful, cutting-edge mountain bikes in St. Cloud, Minnesota from the early ‘80’s through the mid ‘90’s.

ABM was well known in the mountain bike world for coming up with novel ideas and then figuring out how to produce them. They manufactured polished and anodized aluminum bike frames at a time when painted steel was the norm. Their Montanaous model was one of the first modern-era bikes to have adjustable frame angles (change the head angle by changing the headset placement). The modern bike shop parts procurement nightmare, the replaceable derailleur hanger? American was really the first sizable company to incorporate the feature into every model. For a trade show in the early ‘90’s, ABM built a mountain bike frame out of super-light Beryllium tubing.

ODI Mushroom grips

Shiny aluminum

Deore XT Crankset

The 2 pound mountain bike frame never made it into real production as they really couldn’t produce frames out of the dangerously toxic metal for less than $25,000 each.
False starts and misteps aside, American Bicycle Manufacturing was ahead of the curve. 

American was the original sponsor of the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival in nearby Hayward, Wisconson.  The festival today is one of the biggest and oldest off-road races in the world, drawing over 2500 participants into the woods each year.

Aluminum stem with brake cable roller

No suspension this model year

Outfitted with Shimano’s first off-road clipless pedal

Unfortunately, American Bicycle Manufacturing did not survive the mountain bike boom.  As a builder for other manufacturers as well as for their own brand, American sometimes lost market share and intellectual property to their own customers.   In 1993, a deal to produce tandems for Specialized fell through, leaving American with over 200 tandem frames they couldn’t sell.

American head badge

No nonsense design

Early Deore XT, replaceable derailleur hanger

This particular American M-16 features all of 1990’s best mountain bike bits. It has the Shimano Deore XT component group with 21 speed indexed shifting, the new 2-finger XT brake levers, round (not oval) black anodized chainrings, Shimano SPD pedals and black cantilever brakes… And a Hite Rite!
Do you have a dropper seatpost on your new mountain bike? This bike has the original.

Breeze & Angel Hite Rite

Specialized Ground Control tires

A Breeze & Angel Hite Rite seat adjuster is clamped around the Suntour XC seatpost. Just flip the quick release lever, let your weight push the saddle down and then re-tighten the quick release when you had the saddle at the right height. Just be carefull when you want the seat to go back up, the spring shoots the saddle back up pretty quickly…

Want an old-school mountain bike for yourself?  This bike is rare, and we’re reluctant to let it go, but $2000 will make it yours

1979 Cornelo Super

1979 Cornelo Super

You know, you look just like this bicycle I know. Are you related to an Italian bike named Colnago?

Why yes I am. I’m his step-brother.

In the 1970s, a Dutch bike shop owner named Henk Kokke made frequent visits to Italy. On one of his trips he bought a couple of racing frames from Ernesto Colnago. There was one frame for Henk’s son Corné and one for racer Bart van Est. The exotic Colnagos drew quite a bit of attention in the Netherlands and it became apparent that the Italian frames would sell. Henk decided to start his own imported brand. He came up with an Italian-sounding moniker (rooted in the name of his son Corné) and contracted with Ernesto Colnago to build the bikes. As far as we know, Cornelo frames are still available today and they’re built the same way. The frames are still bought in Italy, painted in Belgium and assembled in St. Willebrord, The Netherlands.

Dura-Ace 7200 EX crankset

1978 Dura-Ace brakes

Shimano slant parallelogram derailleur

This particular Cornelo is constructed much like the Colnago Supers of the era. The Colnago club emblems have been omitted, but the Columbus SL tubing, the build precision and the wonderful ride characteristics are all there.

Cornelo head badge

Brooks B17

This bike, being of such international flavor, is a great showcase for the Japanese Dura-Ace 7200 EX group. This Shimano component group is fairly similar to the popular Campagnolo Record of the time but with two notable design improvements. First, the rear derailleur has the slant parallelogram design first invented by Suntour in the 1960′s. This derailleur design keeps the distance between the top derailleur pulley and the freewheel cogs consistent no matter which gear you were in. Shifting with this design meant that the pull on the shift lever was easier. The other neat little design touch was the crank arm bolts that would double as their own crank arm extraction tool, a labor saving touch that mechanics loved.

Like this bike? It can be yours. This 52cm size (good for a rider 5’3″-5’6″ tall) is for sale out of our museum collection for $1200

2002 Moots YBB Mountain Bike

2002 Moots YBB Air

While not the very first mountain bike brand out there, Moots certainly can be called one of the “originals”.
Founded in 1981 by Kent Eriksen, the little Steamboat Springs bike company (that was named after Kent’s alligator-shaped pencil-top eraser Mr. Moots) has always led with great ideas and solid craftsmanship.
Back in the ’80′s, Moots was known as a fun custom shop that specialized in off-road frames, handlebars and stems. In 1983 Steve Tilford raced a Moots mountain bike to victory at the very first NORBA national championship and gave the creative brand instant racing credibility. In 1985 Moots came up with the first set of bar-ends for flat mountain bike handlebars. 1n 1987 Moots unveiled the YBB suspension seen here, and in 1991 they introduced their first titanium bike.

Mr. Moots Alligator head tube badge

The YBB Air soft-tail

This is a Moots YBB mountain bike from 2002.
The YBB (Why Be Beat) design is a signature style for Moots. In the 25 years or so that the YBB has been around the pivotless soft-tail has become one of the most copied suspension designs in the bike world.  This variation, the YBB Air, utilizes a Rock Shox air canister to give the rider control over the spring rate and rebound characteristics of the rear end, managing the admittedly subtle single inch of rear travel.

Custom Sid fork

XTR all around

Joe Breeze designed dropouts

The front end of this bike features a custom Rock Shox Sid World Cup suspension fork.  Hercules Castro, a friend of ours at Rockshox, built this fork out of the random ingredients lying around the office (in one of the Rockshox desx?).  It has a carbon fiber crown and steerer, super light 28mm sliders with an experimental coating, white magnesium lowers and a prototype remote switch.

Shimano would be proud of the components bolted to this Moots.  There are four generations of XTR parts working together.  There ‘s the early generation XTR 950 hubs, the 960 brake levers, the 980 generation drivetrain and the 970 V-brakes that bring everything to a stop.

Like this bike? Gavin is selling it… $4K will make it yours.

Used and Vintage Parts

Trying to restore older bikes with original equipment can be tough. Trust us, we know.

’82 Super Record rear derailleur $100

We have a variety of random old parts here at the store. We’ll show off some of the cooler items here. If you need something but don’t see it here, come in or call. We may have the part tucked away in a box somewhere, or know where you can go to find it.

We have only a couple of rules concerning old equipment: First, there is no warranty. Bike parts typically only have a one year warranty from their manufacturer, and some of the companies involved have been gone for decades. Second, you have to be patient. If we offer to look through our personal stash for you, it takes a bit of time.

While we would prefer to sell these items to you in person, we can also send them to your door. We use U.S. Postal flat rate shipping and will ship only within the United States. Postage for small items run $10, medium size flat-rate boxes run $15 and larger items are $20 and up.

Available parts

175mm Campagnolo Chorus Crankset $150
New old stock Dura-Ace 7700 rear derailleur $100
Bontrager Aeolus 9 carbon rear wheel $300
Zipp 909 carbon front wheel $300
New early ’90′s Timec pedals $100
Assorted vintage freewheels $20-$100
New Cinelli Spinacci clip-on aero bars $40
Assorted Cinelli model 64, 65 and 66 handlebars $20-$80
Assorted Cinelli XA, Grammo titanium and 1A stems $40-$60
New XTR M950 front derailleur 31.8 clamp $95
Used ’87 XT M730 front derailleur 29.8 clamp $50
Used ’92 Shimano 600 (Ultegra) rear derailleur $50
Used ’82 Campy Super Record rear derailleur $100
Used XTR M950 rear derailleur $150
Used XT M739 rear derailleur $40
Used Dura-Ace 7400 29.8 clamp front derailleur $40
Used ’92 Campy Mirage rear derailleur $80
Used XT M750 rear derailleur $50
Used Suntour VX rear derailleur $10
Used Campy Victory rear derailleur $40
Used Campy Victory 29.8 clamp front derailleur $20
Used Campy Mirage braze-on front derailleur $40
Used Campy Victory compact crankset 170mm x 36/50T $100
Used late ‘90’s Campy Record Crankset 172.5mm x 53t x 39t  $120
25.0 Campy Super Record seatpost (vintage 1983) $75
25.0 Campy Chorus aero seatpost (vintage 1988) $75
Used Girvin alloy 1″ quill flex stem $50
Used White Brothers 1 1/8” carbon mountain bike fork $200
27.2mm rare 1980’s Columbus seatpost $100
Used ’89 Campy Record threaded 1″ headset $100
New Bionx PL-350 motor wheels $100 (no warranty)
Used mid ’80′s Shimano 600 brake calipers $40 pair
New Paul components chain guides $30
Used Fox Float R rear suspension can 6.5″ length, 1.5″ travel $90
Used Fox RP23 with boost valve rear suspension can 6.5”  length, 1.5” travel $99
Used Shimano 6400 Ultegra crankset w/b.b. 170mm x 52t x 42t $40

Dura Ace 7700

Aeolus 9

Zipp 909

Cinelli bars and stems

Columbus 27.2 post

New vintage freewheels

N.O.S. Cinelli Spinacci bars

XTR M950 31.8 clamp front der. $95

XTR M950 rear derailleur $125

Deore XT M739 rear derailleur $50

XT M730 29.8 clamp front derailleur $50

Campagnolo Victory 29.8 clamp $20

Paul components chain guides $30

Campy Mirage braze-on der. $40

Campy Mirage 170 53×39 crank $80

Mavic 501 29.8 clamp front derailleur $30

Black ITM 100mm quill stem $40

Dura-Ace 7400 29.8 clamp front der. $40

Fox Float suspension can 6.5 x 1.5 $90

New Bionx PL350 motor wheel $100

Alloy quill Girvin Flexstem $40

Ultegra 6400 crankset 170 52×42 $40

’92 Shimano 600 rear derailleur $50

’91 Campy Chorus 1″ headset $50

Used LeMond tri bike

Used LeMond Limoges

A great deal on a fast tri bike.

This is a LeMond Limoges triathlon bike from around 2004.  A super aerodynamic design that still climbs well, it features a mix of carbon fiber and hydroformed aluminum tubing.

The bike is outfitted with Shimano 105 components, FSA cranks, Vision carbon aero bars, and Bontrager Race X Lite wheels with DT hubs.

This is a medium-sized 54cm frame, and will fit a rider between 5’5″ and 5’10″ really well.  New, this rig would probably run you around $2500.  Buy it now for only $979.

1940′s Colson Flyer

1940′s Colson Flyer

The restoration project.

Everybody loves good before and after photos.  A bicycle restoration project is great at showing the damage that the decades can do, and you get to watch as that damage is erased with fresh paint or new chrome.

A while back, this balloon-tire cruiser came to us as a rusty old relic.  The years were not kind to the old Colson.  While the rust was not deep, it was everywhere.  The owner, a fellow named Gerald Taylor, had a history with the bike and wanted to return the Flyer to its former glory.

Colson Flyer “before”

Gerald’s father had purchased the bike upon returning to the Seattle area from the second World War.  Affordable cars were hard to come by in the months following the end of the war, and Gerald’s father figured he could get around on these two wheels just as well as he could with four.  The bike served as a trusty commuter for a number of years before transitioning to recreational use, and finally retiring to the back of the garage.

The crankset “after”

The crankset “before”

The wheels were beyond repair.  By removing the head badge and the reflectors, we were able to find clean bits of original paint, so the new colors would match.  Parts were stripped off of the frame, and the dents were rolled out of the fenders.

Off to the painter (CycleSmith) went the frame, fork, fenders, and chainguard.

Into the recycling went the chain, pedals, and wheels.

The fenders “after”

The fenders “before”

Rusty bits like the chainring, seatpost, fork struts, handlebars and stem made their way to the chrome shop (Art’s chroming in Bremerton).

Some of the parts that you find on old bikes are still made today.  No problem getting a Wald kickstand, and the reproductions of the pedals and saddle are well worth the price.  Appropriate fasteners are just a quick trip to the hardware store (no allen bolts or torx heads on sixty year old bikes, thank you).

The head tube “after”

The head tube “before”

Jeff, who started collecting balloon-tire bikes decades ago, dug up some great matching wheels and tires from a “donor” bike.  Fresh grease for the hubs and some new spokes made them roll and look just right.

Now, I’d like to say this was a quick project.  But it wasn’t.

Sometimes it takes a while to find the right parts.  You have to get on a painter’s schedule (some have months-long backlogs), and it takes a while to get chrome done (Art’s is actually quite fast).  You may have seen the car and motorcycle restoration shows on television where things move lightning fast.  They use an editor.

The headlight “after”

The headlight “before”

I truly wish we were able to finish this bike sooner, as Gerald missed the opportunity to see his beautiful bike all spruced up.  Gerald fell ill and passed away a few weeks before we were able to finish the project.

The “After” photo is the way this bike would have looked when Gerald’s dad first brought it home.

This bike is for sale from the museum collection.  It can be yours, fully restored, for $2500.

2003 Mondonico Pista

2003 Mondonico track bike

Antonio Mondonico made this bike for us in 2003.  We asked him for a modern track bike that would steal some attention from the antiques on the walls.  He delivered. 

This Italian gem comes from a small workshop just outside of Milan.  Built for sprint distance and mass start track events, it is made of extremely springy nivacrom steel, silver brazed into Mondonico’s custom lugs.  The orange paint is about as subtle as a traffic signal.  A bit of chrome here and there to remind us that this is not a plastic bike.

Aces, Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds

Antonio Mondonico head badge

The machined quill stem matches the fluted seatpost

Custom Selle San Marco Rolls saddle

Columbus EL - OS Nivacrom tubing

The parts are a mix of modern classics.  Paul Components made the gambler’s crankset, with the four card suits machined into the chainring.  A fluted seatpost and machined stem harken back to the 1970s, while the paired-spoke design of the wheels says this is a modern build.

Antonio spent decades building bikes, and many famous Italian racers rode Mondonicos (even if they were painted in another brand’s colors).  Unable to interest his son Mauro in taking over the family business, Antonio retired from bike building in 2007.

This bike is for sale from the museum collection.  It is a 56cm frame, a good fit for a track rider between 5’9″ and 5’11″.  $3000 will buy you this fantastic bit of Italian craftsmanship.

Bike Appraisals

Have an old bike that you’d like to get appraised?

We can help, but we have a few guidelines that we’d like you to understand.

First, we have no idea what your bike is worth without seeing it. We’re just not that smart. Don’t call us and try to describe it over the phone. Serial numbers do not help. Instead, you can send us an email (please use complete sentences, we don’t do well with abbreviated texts) with some pictures attached or bring your bike in to the store.

Take a photo from the “drive side” in front of a neutral background

To make the appraisal more accurate, prepare the bike and take photos like you would if you were going to sell it. Clean the bike, remove any broken or rough-looking accessories and put some air in the tires.
Take pictures straight on in front of a blank background, and take close-up photos of areas that may generate interest (or confusion).

There is no “Blue Book” value for bicycles. Bikes are simply worth what someone else is willing to pay for them. Bicycle values tend to be highest when the weather is warm, in places where it’s pleasant to ride, and wherever there are a lot of people who like bikes.

Badges or labels on the tubes help with identification

Close-ups of the parts tell a lot about your bike

You know more about your bike than we do. If you just bought a bike for $50, you have just established the value of the bicycle (and you are not likely to be able to sell it for $2000 to somebody else). You know when you bought it, so you have a good idea of the age, and you know if it was a high-end racing model or a basic bike from Walmart.

Rarity rarely helps determine value. If you have a one-of-a-kind bicycle, it may mean that no one has ever heard of it and/or nobody is looking for one.

Popularity is no indicator either. Bikes that were sold in large numbers could fall into one of two camps. You could have a bike that will never sell (Schwinn Varsity) because there are still thousands of them out there, or you could have a bike that will cause a bidding war (Bridgestone MB-1) because people rode them into the ground and they want another one.

If what you’re really after is to get rid of an old bike, keep us in mind. While we don’t buy bikes outright, we’ll likely take your old bike as a trade-in for something new….