So today’s post will be sort of a non-post, what with today being a national holiday and all, but further to yesterday’s post I am going to share a couple bikes that made the trip with me from Queens and need new homes. Here’s one of them:
I don’t know the year on the frame, and I don’t really know Felt sizing and models, but I’d call it a 58cm. I do know that it’s surgically clean and operates perfectly. I also know that having become accustomed to Rivendae it’s so light that when I lifted it I accidentally lost control of it and it would up in a tree. Wheels are hand built, probably Velocity rims (owner was an obsessive de-labler and if a logo could be removed then he removed it, though do I know he liked Velocity), with a Ritchey hub up front…
…and a Hope hub in the rear:
The hub is wrapped in one of those Garmin thingies and that’s a power meter crank. I don’t know from Garmin thingies or power meter cranks. I do know it’s SRAM Force 10 speed, though the rear shifter is SRAM Red, because this is someone who only upgraded where it really counts:
Ostensibly more pedestrian but arguably more genteel is this Kinesis Racelight:
As I understand it, these bikes are very common over in the UK, but here in Canada’s comfort saddle you almost never see them. We both shared an affinity for bikes with medium-reach brakes and fender clearance, though I did not share his affinity for keeping bikes clean, and this is easily the World’s Tidiest Winter Road Bike:
It has a SRAM Rival 10 speed drivetrain with Force shifters and Shimano 105 hubs. I’m not 100% sure the wheels are hand built but most likely they are, because this belonged to someone with the patience to build wheels and an almost pathological aversion to “wheelsets.”
These bikes can be yours. I want them to be yours. I currently have them listed them in a half-assed fashion on the Hell Sight (that’s the List of Craig). You’re welcome to find the listings, look at those prices, and to regard them or disregard them as you see fit. I think they’re very low, but maybe they’re very high. I have no idea. As a semi-professional blogger and the Classic Cycles Old Crap Test Pilot I am completely detached from real-world pricing.
If you’re interested in either of these bikes and want to make me an offer, I’d recommend emailing me with a price that makes you feel like you’re getting a great deal, whilst at the same time insulting me only moderately. If I had six months, a large storefront, and absolutely nothing else to do, I could extract maximum value out of these bikes and components and haggle with people over stuff like whether to include the pedals or not, or create multiple listings for each one on multiple platforms and ship them to the people willing to pay the most, or even part them out. However, the fact is I’m a washed up former semi-professional bike blogger who now commutes to an office twice a week, lives in an apartment building already full his own bikes, and has a family who counts of him for…well, I’m not good for much, but I can boil pasta. So if I can find homes for these bikes, make some money for a good cause, and make someone who reads this blog really happy because he or she scored a great bike for a great price, then I’d call that a very good outcome. (All the better if I don’t have to rent a storage unit, which is becoming an increasingly real possibility.) As a bike blogger I’ve lucked into some great deals over the years, so as blog readers you deserve to luck into some great deals too.
(But be able to come pick up the bike if possible. Not having to travel or to ship a bike is worth a lot of money to me. If you don’t regularly pack and ship bikes then you have no idea what a chore it is. Hey, maybe we can even go for a ride.)
Thanks for reading, and enjoy the holiday.
–Tan Tenovo
