I have a SA 3-speed Brompton bike. It carried me, my camping gear, my dog and my dog’s stuff from Lands End to John O’Groats. It has done a tour of the Lake District, a tour through the Cotswolds and The Way of The Roses. It does the commute, the shopping run and weekend pleasure rides - with or without a picnic and my watercolour paint set on board. It is a part of my life, a blessing, a comfort and sometimes a damn nuisance. I don’t clean it enough but I pay attention to basic maintenance. Lord knows it doesn’t ask for much, I just get on and ride it most days and it gets a wipe now and again and a drop of oil on the chain three or four times a year. It has become a companion and if I found anyone trying to steal it I would fight like a hellcat to keep hold of it. It may be just a bike, but it’s MY bike and I love it.
I sold my Cube Attain road bike to my brother when I bought my Cube Nuroad Race gravel bike a few years ago. I was helping him move house last weekend, and saw the bike in the garage. I said "hello! I miss you!", and gave it a pat as I passed it. My brother thought I was talking to his dog. 😅So, yes, I understand the feeling...
I bought a bike from a woman who lived 5 miles away, rode it to a new freelance job and she happened to work there! She was delighted to see her old bike still on the road and I loved riding my 'new' bike there every week.
I’m a firm believer that the longer you use the same bike it develops it own soul, you know it’s little characteristics and it knows yours. It’s only as good as you and if you look after it, it will take you to unbelievable places. That’s the covenant.
Sometimes a bike holds you back. I have an alloy Cannondale Synapse that I hate riding now because the frame is so sluggish and flexible. Much of my power generated is lost in the flex of the frame. It was fine for me as a beginner, but as a stronger cyclist now, it’s no good. We are no longer compatible. Fortunately I have a good carbon bike to ride instead. So in my case, the covenant has soured because the alloy bike no longer meets my needs. It frustrates me and makes me not want to ride it.
I lovw that your bike can now go on new adventures, the Toy Story reference made it real for me. You're awesome, keep making great content. I'm a late starter (43) but you and people like you motivated me to start riding and I love it. I feel like a kid again!
I can relate to that feeling. I sold my 2014 Giant Defy because I didn’t ride it two years ago. I was sad to see it go but after a year I bought it back so I was happy again to own it. Not letting it go again lol.
Ive just put my Cervelo S5 Frameset on there but I cant see anything about who pays the postage? Is postage included as part of the 3.5% fee they take? EDIT: Ah, ok, just found this on the website: "The shipping fees for your order are displayed during checkout and can vary depending on the location of the bike. If the bike is being shipped from abroad, a cross-border fee of 2% will be charged. This fee covers the extra miles your bike will have to travel to reach you"
Come on, Katie - It's JUST A BIKE!! It's not like you're losing a boyfriend or a husband; it's a bike (frame)! Having said that I am a little attached to my beautiful Teschner Ingresso from earlier this century. It's not as though I keep it in my bedroom (for one thing, there isn't enough room for it!) but it does 'live' in my kitchen, which isn't very big at all. Still, its response to strokes on the pedals will always be the thing I will remember, should I ever sell it. (Not going to happen!)
Cool plug for a “ middle person “ style online bike marketplace. Very good point about carbon assessment, we could judge steel fairly well back then, but not effectively carbon today.
I sold a bike that was tough to say goodbye to as well. It was about 10 years ago, my wife and I needed to raise some cash to buy airline tickets to Madagascar to visit our son (he was in the Peace Corps), so I sold my custom Seven titanium bicycle to cover the cost of the tickets. We got a great trip and adventure from it, and I did not need that bike any longer. But, there was a twinge of regret, which I think is normal.
Good video a bike is a bike no matter what bike you have you have to pedal it to move i had lots of bikes over the years and i see no difference and i am 63 nowadays i have giant hybrid i travel all over Ireland on it and it's a great bike.
One of my bikes was the most expensive frame available some years ago. Still got and I will never be able to find its limits. The limit is me, my ability and physique.
Nice to see you again and selling your bike a bike it's part of you it goes where you go you part of it it's got some of your blood on it when you fell of it and cut your knee or other parts it's got you from a two b and that's what makes it good and part of the stay healthy one life enjoy blessed be
My biggest regret was selling my first touring bike a Dawes Super Galaxy that would have been 46 years old. I sold it because I was told 15 years ago I’d never be able to cycle again. They were wrong! I don’t mind selling a bike if O don’t like it or in the case of one of my bikes was slightly too big a reach. I didn’t sell it as I kept on getting crap offers so I gifted it to a charity instead!
Can we all take a moment to appreciate what a thoroughly decent, lovely and beautiful lady KK is. I could listen to her accent talking bikes all day. One of THE best bike channels on the tube.
I bet you're like that with teddy bears as well? I could understand that. I love working on and riding my bikes, but they are just machines at the end of the day. I think as long as i have something i can ride I'll be happy.
Hi Katie, it’s called Animism. Feeling a life force energy in all inanimate objects. I’m exactly the same. I can’t part with a bike until I’ve got a new one, named it and formed an emotional bond with it. Years ago, when my banana yellow rockhopper comp got stolen outside Sainsbury’s by a gang in a white van with bolt croppers, who stole all the bikes that were locked up in the street at the same time! I was devastated. I’d re-built that bike, customised it and it was my 7 day, 365 days a year buddie. I walked home with my shopping and then straight into my local bike shop and ordered a new blood red rockhopper. I had that a couple of weeks and then was hit by a van on my way to work! I had concussion and a buckled wheel. I had to buy downhill mountain bike full body armour to force myself to get back on the bike again as my whole body would just shake, so I only rode to work and would sit in the shed for hours with my bike wondering how to get over the fear. Then, one day, I decided to just feel the fear and go on my usual long weekend rides. Whilst I was out I got beyond the fear, up to a point, enough to go without the body armour. And that’s when I named my bike Angel.❤
Given the ridiculous price of new performance bicycles these days, I'd say the best option is for people entering the activity to buy something used with reasonable mileage under advice of someone who knows bikes. Bike rider advocacy for purchasing seems to be something that's needed more consistently so folk won't buy lemons. Not everyone has a bike nerd friend, and even then they might not know a lot. I know little about modern groups and frames. My last bike was bought in 2002, and while it was a fabulous example for the time, it doesn't have too much in common with bikes of say the last ten years. I would be somewhat at a loss to advise on the purchase of a 2015 bicycle for example.
the Irish writer James Stephens wrote that when a bycicle is used for a long time, it becomes humanised, while the owner gets bycicleised (I don't know the real word he used, I read it in translation, but the idea is that)
Can’t bring myself to sell my road bike (2015 Trek Domane) so I get it Christmas presents every year instead. So new wheels then new pedals then a new cluster then a new saddle then new tires then a new crankset then new electronics then a new chain (and another..) then a new seat bag then new lights then new latex tubes then new handle bars then newer new wheels (first full carbon set) then TPU tubes then new tires again….so, all that’s original is the frame, fork and stem
I have a 1981 Guerciotti SL. Columbus steel, all Campag. Had it since new. It toook 4 months for the frame to arrive from Italy. Some components original others have been modernized. After I rode my new 2018 Giant TCR for the first time I knew the Guerciotti was immediately going to retire. Even though I will ride it maybe once each year (it's sooo slammed) I CANNOT sell it. It will hang forever in my bike cave. I think we get emotionally attached to things that we associate with "suffering". By suffering I mean the good kind where you are challenged, not the kind where you're injured. Just my perspective. Ride on Katie!
Under UK law you have the asolute right to return anything you buy online for a full refund up to 30 days after purchase. Doesn't matter if it's one spoke or a whole bike. You don't need to dispute anything. (return postage will be your responsibility).
In 45 years of cycling I've had exactly 3 "real" bikes (I'm not counting the various banana seat bikes I had as a kid). The first was stolen, the second was partly damaged in an accident and it just didn't make sense to fix it, and the third I'm still riding and hope to keep doing so for years to come as it's a keeper. I built it up myself from quality parts, all new, and it's just as good as the day I first rode it. So I've never experienced having to sell an older bike. But I am somewhat of a hoarder with other things that I find hard to get rid of. Not actual junk, but mostly electronic devices that I keep telling myself I might need someday (and which I doubt that I ever will). And books, but who gets rid of those who has the room for them? But I totally get the angst of getting rid of something that once meant something to you but which you don't use or need anymore. Hell, I still have some parts from my previous bike. I do think that if you're just getting into cycling and don't have an unlimited budget, looking at good used bikes might be a good way to get a quality bike that's much better than anything you'd buy new at the same price. Especially with the price of new bikes these days.
Hi Katie, yes I totally agree about the absurd amounts of cash people feel they have to spend just to even get started ! My first serious bike was in 1992 from Coast Cycles in Liverpool, a Peugeot Electra (lovely purple paint job with a Jackson Pollox style multi-colour spatter effect), 52/42 x 7, 501 Reynolds (ie, cheapest Reynolds) tubing, down tube shifters Shimano Biopace get, in other words ENTRY LEVEL BIKE ! I used that for many, many 70-100 mile rides into Wales, Lancs, L, pool to Leeds in a day, West Coast of Scotland, Isle of Skye, Yorks Dales etc, etc (not to mention twice weekly bread and butter fitness rides out of L, pool) . . I had it for 12 years and ironically, it gave me the least hassle of virtually any bike I've owned ! I now have a SPA ELAN TI bike which is a fantastic DREAM bike . . WOW ! However, it was the Peugeot that got me " out there " and rolling and the Spa is only the 3rd Rd, Gravel, Tourer type bike I've ever owned in 32 yrs of cycling . . I just don't get this Bike Lust thing . . get a good enough bike, save your money for trips . . And Ride !
lol, i do a that with my jogging trail running hiking shoes too. so many miles of adventure and long running days. they become like your companions on a journey in keeping fit and having fun adventures. i run them down, save the laces if they are still good, then a quick brush-clean and final words, thank you for all the good times, then placed neatly into the trash bin. next i unbox a new pair and dream of bigger adventures... :)
Katie, you are mad. It’s a bike. It’s a tool to further adventure, fitness and fun. It’s great to be passionate to look after these things, but a soul? Not sure about that. Anyway each to their own.
Sold many a bike, frame and components over the years that I wish I hadn’t, we don’t however make decisions in hindsight. Moreover, never had anything given to me either, my advice is stop watching videos and go and enjoy what you’ve got.
It is believed that ones personal property is an extension of one self ! In that matter bicycles , i believe , are the greatest expression of such ! I was finally able to get me a road bike , many many years of waiting ! and its a beautiful awesome aluminium bike that i love ! ... it NOT a top end expensive one ... i don't believe in that ! ( thats just marketing ! ) mine cost only $280 plus another $600 i've put in it up-grading it ! even to the gear ratios that i wanted ! and now its an awesome bike ! super fast super comfortable ! as if we were made for each other !... taking care of each other !... =) I dont think i could sell it , but it the need came by , i'd make sure its gonna be loved too !!!...
I can't get rid of my bikes, I have at least a dozen bikes (it's sad that I don't know the exact number) in my garage dating back to at least 1988. My wife calls it my "harem".
Oh I totally get attached to my bikes. After a ride and I'm home I always walk out to my bike and thank it for getting me to and from home safe and for taking me on such wonderful adventures no matter how far or short the ride was. My friends think it's weird but ask me if I care. I was totally waiting for you to run down and get the bike before he left. That would have been great !!!!
Never sell a bike that you love, especially frame only, as you can build it up again one day. This is the massive advantage of rim brake bikes with mechanical gears - so easy to transfer parts over. Personally I've never had an issue with Ebay but will give buycycle a look.
I always wave to apartments and houses where I used to live when I go past. I totally get where you are coming from, and I would absolutely have waved good-bye to the courier truck if it were my trusted whip on its way to new adventures.
You can’t help developing a bond with bikes, they become part of you. There’s two or three bikes that I’ve sold that whilst it was sensible, I wish I hadn’t.
A LBS near me has an annual used bike sale. You take your bike to the shop, the staff inspects the bike and tells you the price you can expect. The shop has a one day sale of fairly priced bikes that actually are in good repair. As a seller you can get either - a check or a shop credit. If your bike doesn't sell - you pick it up the next day or it is donated to a local organization that gets bikes to those who can't afford one. That is your call. I've done it twice with bikes I no longer used and both were sold. I got some new bike parts, tires and kit - bikes are being used by someone who was told what they were getting. This shop has been around for a long time and has a very good reputation. Win - Win as near as I can tell.
I get it and if you don’t want to watch then totally up to up :) I wouldn’t say it’s thinly veiled either… it’s defo an advert because I love the concept and company trying to keep cycling affordable and sustainable and by supporting them I’m also supported putting out content. If you knew the amount of money I turn down… then I think you would feel differently. But if my videos aren’t for you any more thanks for the support in the past and all the best to you :)
Totally get it as sold Ribble’s al and Denis C Ridley to buy trek al 5 Hard to let them go but after a month on new bike it was like yeah this is special and off to France next week 9 days bike packing and wild camping and all because of your videos 🫡👍😎 as always very inspiring for the regular cyclists ✊
Everyone to their own, I couldn't get rid of my old Apollo 1998 MTB (first adult bike) so he is retired & set up as a 'dumb' indoor trainer in the shed now 😊
Don't bother...Seen a Pinarello on the Buycycle site , seller is in UK (nr York) and bike cost is now £350 (down from £800) but if I buy the bike through Buycycle shipping is £173. Yes, that's correct £173 within the UK!!! Wait till you see the shipping and tax on bikes from abroad. Easily add another£4-500 on top of your purchase price. Even if I bought my own bike box (new) from a reputable UK courier company it wouldn't total more than £100 and I know this because I shopped around. In a nutshell the shipping costs for Buycycle make the whole deal a no go and the site largely irrelevant for the vast majority of buyers.
I totally understand the separation anxiety thing, it would be weird if you didn't have it, each journey, and adventure, and PB, and K/QOM was a joint effort of you and your machine. When it failed, it was because of the fatigue you compounded on it after countless miles, so you repaired or upgraded it and you kept it going. When you gave up and pulled in on the side of the road to take a minute, it waited with you, it was ready at a minutes notice to carry on once you were ready. Will the next bike be the same, do the same?. When I'm letting something go, I think of the immortal words from Babe, "That'll do Pig, That'll do" or in your case, Sheepy! 🐑
I bought a Gennis Aluminium Road Bike for £220 from my local bike last year for the 2024 St Peter's Charity ride. Great value for money. Sadly the local bike has closed. The shop has gone online.
Some bikes come and go, but I have two that I will never sell. I probably spend a thousand pounds a year on new tubular tyres, Super Record 11 speed drivetrain components, SwissStop carbon pads and such to keep them both running like brand new, but it’s worth it to me for the memories they’ve given me around the world.
That's a really cool "Service' , I don't think we have anything like it in NZ . I clicked on your vid because I thought it was about you selling a motorcycle ! Hilarious that I feel the same-way about my bikes (motorcycles) when I'm somewhere else and they're all covered-up at home having no 'Adventures' . Every time I sell a bike I'm always sad to see it go too... I appreciate nice push-bikes also , I have a couple of mountain-bikes (one flash-one ) and a nice old vintage racing-bike that needs some love...... Dave nz
Thanks Katie for the site! This is timely as I'm looking for a road bike under $1K just for my Zwift Hub trainer. Love your channel as I have now become a bike nerd myself.😊
Hi Katie, I recently listed my bike with Buycycle and got really good interest and 2/3 offers. However you can't ship outside of the UK and most of the interested parties were in Europe. I sent an email to customer services (really quick response) and they said "due to import issues" they cannot currently offer this. This was on the 11th June 2024. Has this been resolved?
Bought a Dawes Galaxy 30yrs old on Gumtree two years ago for £160. It was in excellent condition and I added the parts I wanted to suit me. I do lots of Audaxes on it and ultras. Just need to keep your eyes open for bargains.
I have sold a couple of bikes in NZ an S-Works Tarmac and a TCR advanced but I love my TCR advanced T-Mobile team replica and I just cannot bring myself to sell it so the frame hangs in my home office where I gaze at it occasionally and think about rebuilding it with period correct components.
Glad to know your Buycycle seller experience was really good. My experience purchasing my Pinarello Dogma F10 through them was excellent! A great bike, a great price, great service, all with great confidence. No better way to get an Italian bike from Belgium through Netherlands and Germany to Indiana USA. Thanks for sharing!
Currently still riding 2008 Bionicon Golden Willow Scandium MTB & 2016 FELT VR30 Gravel. Getting to age where I'm considering eMTB due to dodgy legs, but can't see day when I'll sell the others as I've had so many memorable times with them!
Well my main bike I bought of a mate who'd got it off ebay, so possibly third or forth owner. I've still got most of my bikes, the other year rebuilt my old steel Rockhopper mtb hardtail for my mate to ride on his stag do, with the intension it'd slow him down on the trails, it didn't.
haha had to laugh at you looking out the window......I've never had issues with parting with anything but bike frames....its the reason why i've got 5 frames in the garage...i can justify 3 of them as used alot, but the other 2 purely sentimental and irrational to keep them, but here we are 🤣🤣 Have you kept your Giant? My first proper bike i coudn't bare to part with, sometimes get's a retro spin out up in the Dales for old times sake, but to be fair it's done alot of Europe and the Alps, plus Aus so yea purely sentimental. The thing that makes me laugh is my older bike, non di2, non aero, rim brakes and aly frame actually isn't that much slower or less enjoyable, deminishing returns i think with bikes over the 4k mark. If i had to suddenly choose a bike to cycle around the world, i would choose that in a hearbeat over the expensive carbon bike i ride for roads. Infact everything to do with bikes has gone silly really and manufactures i think are really trying to cash in on the consumer replacement cycle, aka its now natural to get a new phone every few years, many club riders just want the "best" kit, so its each upgrade to drivetrain, gears, brakes etc, it all fits with that model. I'd still like someone to explain to me how we went from an agreed international standard for disc brakes to post mount, and now flat mount (I mean if they could reinvent the wheel shape to get a few more upgrades they would)! But yea electronic shifting will allow manufactures to launch an apparent new product, but is it under the hood in all reality....?! My takeaway is it doesn't matter what bike you ride, you can have fun and enjoy any, and certainly safe secondhand bikes can only be a good thing, and if your riding for 6 hours, what does 10 mins really mean in the scheme of things, zero unless your competing.
I have a SA 3-speed Brompton bike. It carried me, my camping gear, my dog and my dog’s stuff from Lands End to John O’Groats. It has done a tour of the Lake District, a tour through the Cotswolds and The Way of The Roses. It does the commute, the shopping run and weekend pleasure rides - with or without a picnic and my watercolour paint set on board. It is a part of my life, a blessing, a comfort and sometimes a damn nuisance. I don’t clean it enough but I pay attention to basic maintenance. Lord knows it doesn’t ask for much, I just get on and ride it most days and it gets a wipe now and again and a drop of oil on the chain three or four times a year. It has become a companion and if I found anyone trying to steal it I would fight like a hellcat to keep hold of it. It may be just a bike, but it’s MY bike and I love it.
I sold my Cube Attain road bike to my brother when I bought my Cube Nuroad Race gravel bike a few years ago. I was helping him move house last weekend, and saw the bike in the garage. I said "hello! I miss you!", and gave it a pat as I passed it. My brother thought I was talking to his dog. 😅So, yes, I understand the feeling...
I bought a bike from a woman who lived 5 miles away, rode it to a new freelance job and she happened to work there! She was delighted to see her old bike still on the road and I loved riding my 'new' bike there every week.
I’m a firm believer that the longer you use the same bike it develops it own soul, you know it’s little characteristics and it knows yours. It’s only as good as you and if you look after it, it will take you to unbelievable places. That’s the covenant.
Sometimes a bike holds you back. I have an alloy Cannondale Synapse that I hate riding now because the frame is so sluggish and flexible. Much of my power generated is lost in the flex of the frame. It was fine for me as a beginner, but as a stronger cyclist now, it’s no good. We are no longer compatible. Fortunately I have a good carbon bike to ride instead. So in my case, the covenant has soured because the alloy bike no longer meets my needs. It frustrates me and makes me not want to ride it.
@@paddymurphy-oconnor8255Sell or trade the bike to get your newer and better bike.
That brought a tear to my eye. Same, namaste.
Utter rubbish!
@@ajollygoodchap your nice
I lovw that your bike can now go on new adventures, the Toy Story reference made it real for me. You're awesome, keep making great content. I'm a late starter (43) but you and people like you motivated me to start riding and I love it. I feel like a kid again!
Again an amazing Video Katie, this will help a lot of us!
I can relate to that feeling. I sold my 2014 Giant Defy because I didn’t ride it two years ago. I was sad to see it go but after a year I bought it back so I was happy again to own it. Not letting it go again lol.
Bought myself a nishiki carbon frame and built it up with ultegra group set,it’s unique as have never seen another one on my journeys
Katie- the way you think about bikes is just crazy. I am glad I am not alone.
Still riding my 2010 Planet X
Ive just put my Cervelo S5 Frameset on there but I cant see anything about who pays the postage? Is postage included as part of the 3.5% fee they take?
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Ah, ok, just found this on the website:
"The shipping fees for your order are displayed during checkout and can vary depending on the location of the bike. If the bike is being shipped from abroad, a cross-border fee of 2% will be charged. This fee covers the extra miles your bike will have to travel to reach you"
I got my last bike for £42 on eBay.
Come on, Katie - It's JUST A BIKE!! It's not like you're losing a boyfriend or a husband; it's a bike (frame)! Having said that I am a little attached to my beautiful Teschner Ingresso from earlier this century. It's not as though I keep it in my bedroom (for one thing, there isn't enough room for it!) but it does 'live' in my kitchen, which isn't very big at all. Still, its response to strokes on the pedals will always be the thing I will remember, should I ever sell it. (Not going to happen!)
You know your music Katie
Recommend, if you haven't seen already, on the i player
Glasto Friday
LCD Soundsystem
❤ xx
Cool plug for a “ middle person “ style online bike marketplace. Very good point about carbon assessment, we could judge steel fairly well back then, but not effectively carbon today.
I sold a bike that was tough to say goodbye to as well. It was about 10 years ago, my wife and I needed to raise some cash to buy airline tickets to Madagascar to visit our son (he was in the Peace Corps), so I sold my custom Seven titanium bicycle to cover the cost of the tickets. We got a great trip and adventure from it, and I did not need that bike any longer. But, there was a twinge of regret, which I think is normal.
Good video a bike is a bike no matter what bike you have you have to pedal it to move i had lots of bikes over the years and i see no difference and i am 63 nowadays i have giant hybrid i travel all over Ireland on it and it's a great bike.
One of my bikes was the most expensive frame available some years ago. Still got and I will never be able to find its limits. The limit is me, my ability and physique.
"Heylooo" 😂
Nice to see you again and selling your bike a bike it's part of you it goes where you go you part of it it's got some of your blood on it when you fell of it and cut your knee or other parts it's got you from a two b and that's what makes it good and part of the stay healthy one life enjoy blessed be
Good. Now go and look up the meaning of the word 'punctuation' and then learn how to use it.
My biggest regret was selling my first touring bike a Dawes Super Galaxy that would have been 46 years old. I sold it because I was told 15 years ago I’d never be able to cycle again. They were wrong! I don’t mind selling a bike if O don’t like it or in the case of one of my bikes was slightly too big a reach. I didn’t sell it as I kept on getting crap offers so I gifted it to a charity instead!
She is so so so correct....🎉
Hi Katie good video don't need it sell it takecare tour on tonight
I haven’t caught my bikes chatting amongst themselves but I’m sure I can hear them cussing me out when it’s been awhile for any adventures
It can be harder to sell a bike with carbon parts vs alloy
Do not listen with the volume up if partner is in earshot….
I thought we were going to see one of those 'Pizza Delivery Guy' videos like on one of those adult video sites
Can we all take a moment to appreciate what a thoroughly decent, lovely and beautiful lady KK is. I could listen to her accent talking bikes all day. One of THE best bike channels on the tube.
I love you dearly but having dreams about your bike reminiscing is a tad strange...😊
I bet you're like that with teddy bears as well? I could understand that. I love working on and riding my bikes, but they are just machines at the end of the day. I think as long as i have something i can ride I'll be happy.
It’s normal to have emotional attachment to our bikes and other things. We’re all normal! Right?😂
I get bored of my bike after a couple of years and sell them on for my latest lust after model
You are not selling a bike, you are selling memories.
Hi Katie, it’s called Animism. Feeling a life force energy in all inanimate objects. I’m exactly the same. I can’t part with a bike until I’ve got a new one, named it and formed an emotional bond with it. Years ago, when my banana yellow rockhopper comp got stolen outside Sainsbury’s by a gang in a white van with bolt croppers, who stole all the bikes that were locked up in the street at the same time! I was devastated. I’d re-built that bike, customised it and it was my 7 day, 365 days a year buddie. I walked home with my shopping and then straight into my local bike shop and ordered a new blood red rockhopper. I had that a couple of weeks and then was hit by a van on my way to work! I had concussion and a buckled wheel. I had to buy downhill mountain bike full body armour to force myself to get back on the bike again as my whole body would just shake, so I only rode to work and would sit in the shed for hours with my bike wondering how to get over the fear. Then, one day, I decided to just feel the fear and go on my usual long weekend rides. Whilst I was out I got beyond the fear, up to a point, enough to go without the body armour. And that’s when I named my bike Angel.❤
The used bicycle market is a great way for new riders to get into the fun of cycling. Can be sad to sell on a bike you've had journeys on.
Given the ridiculous price of new performance bicycles these days, I'd say the best option is for people entering the activity to buy something used with reasonable mileage under advice of someone who knows bikes. Bike rider advocacy for purchasing seems to be something that's needed more consistently so folk won't buy lemons. Not everyone has a bike nerd friend, and even then they might not know a lot. I know little about modern groups and frames. My last bike was bought in 2002, and while it was a fabulous example for the time, it doesn't have too much in common with bikes of say the last ten years. I would be somewhat at a loss to advise on the purchase of a 2015 bicycle for example.
the Irish writer James Stephens wrote that when a bycicle is used for a long time, it becomes humanised, while the owner gets bycicleised (I don't know the real word he used, I read it in translation, but the idea is that)
This is SO TRUE!!! I understand that completely and love it. Thank you for sharing with me Andy 🙂
Can’t bring myself to sell my road bike (2015 Trek Domane) so I get it Christmas presents every year instead. So new wheels then new pedals then a new cluster then a new saddle then new tires then a new crankset then new electronics then a new chain (and another..) then a new seat bag then new lights then new latex tubes then new handle bars then newer new wheels (first full carbon set) then TPU tubes then new tires again….so, all that’s original is the frame, fork and stem
I have a 1981 Guerciotti SL. Columbus steel, all Campag. Had it since new. It toook 4 months for the frame to arrive from Italy. Some components original others have been modernized. After I rode my new 2018 Giant TCR for the first time I knew the Guerciotti was immediately going to retire. Even though I will ride it maybe once each year (it's sooo slammed) I CANNOT sell it. It will hang forever in my bike cave. I think we get emotionally attached to things that we associate with "suffering". By suffering I mean the good kind where you are challenged, not the kind where you're injured. Just my perspective. Ride on Katie!
Ya big softie! 😂 Love it 😉
If your bike does not have a "soul", you are probably not a serious cyclist!
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Under UK law you have the asolute right to return anything you buy online for a full refund up to 30 days after purchase. Doesn't matter if it's one spoke or a whole bike. You don't need to dispute anything. (return postage will be your responsibility).
In 45 years of cycling I've had exactly 3 "real" bikes (I'm not counting the various banana seat bikes I had as a kid). The first was stolen, the second was partly damaged in an accident and it just didn't make sense to fix it, and the third I'm still riding and hope to keep doing so for years to come as it's a keeper. I built it up myself from quality parts, all new, and it's just as good as the day I first rode it.
So I've never experienced having to sell an older bike. But I am somewhat of a hoarder with other things that I find hard to get rid of. Not actual junk, but mostly electronic devices that I keep telling myself I might need someday (and which I doubt that I ever will). And books, but who gets rid of those who has the room for them? But I totally get the angst of getting rid of something that once meant something to you but which you don't use or need anymore. Hell, I still have some parts from my previous bike.
I do think that if you're just getting into cycling and don't have an unlimited budget, looking at good used bikes might be a good way to get a quality bike that's much better than anything you'd buy new at the same price. Especially with the price of new bikes these days.
Hi Katie, yes I totally agree about the absurd amounts of cash people feel they have to spend just to even get started ! My first serious bike was in 1992 from Coast Cycles in Liverpool, a Peugeot Electra (lovely purple paint job with a Jackson Pollox style multi-colour spatter effect), 52/42 x 7, 501 Reynolds (ie, cheapest Reynolds) tubing, down tube shifters Shimano Biopace get, in other words ENTRY LEVEL BIKE ! I used that for many, many 70-100 mile rides into Wales, Lancs, L, pool to Leeds in a day, West Coast of Scotland, Isle of Skye, Yorks Dales etc, etc (not to mention twice weekly bread and butter fitness rides out of L, pool) . . I had it for 12 years and ironically, it gave me the least hassle of virtually any bike I've owned ! I now have a SPA ELAN TI bike which is a fantastic DREAM bike . . WOW ! However, it was the Peugeot that got me " out there " and rolling and the Spa is only the 3rd Rd, Gravel, Tourer type bike I've ever owned in 32 yrs of cycling . . I just don't get this Bike Lust thing . . get a good enough bike, save your money for trips . . And Ride !
lol, i do a that with my jogging trail running hiking shoes too. so many miles of adventure and long running days. they become like your companions on a journey in keeping fit and having fun adventures. i run them down, save the laces if they are still good, then a quick brush-clean and final words, thank you for all the good times, then placed neatly into the trash bin. next i unbox a new pair and dream of bigger adventures... :)
I agree with your reaction but like you said someone is going to have new adventures!
Katie, you are mad. It’s a bike. It’s a tool to further adventure, fitness and fun. It’s great to be passionate to look after these things, but a soul? Not sure about that. Anyway each to their own.
Sold many a bike, frame and components over the years that I wish I hadn’t, we don’t however make decisions in hindsight. Moreover, never had anything given to me either, my advice is stop watching videos and go and enjoy what you’ve got.
Love your videos! Hate parting with my bikes. Hence I still have my trusty 1987 Atala with a mix of Campagnolo components.
YupALR Emonda bike riding nicer than my SLR Carbon. Wired. As we age we love compliance and lose 35kph to 33 happily.
It is believed that ones personal property is an extension of one self !
In that matter bicycles , i believe , are the greatest expression of such !
I was finally able to get me a road bike , many many years of waiting ! and its a beautiful awesome aluminium bike that i love ! ... it NOT a top end expensive one ... i don't believe in that ! ( thats just marketing ! ) mine cost only $280 plus another $600 i've put in it up-grading it ! even to the gear ratios that i wanted !
and now its an awesome bike ! super fast super comfortable ! as if we were made for each other !... taking care of each other !... =)
I dont think i could sell it , but it the need came by , i'd make sure its gonna be loved too !!!...
I can't get rid of my bikes, I have at least a dozen bikes (it's sad that I don't know the exact number) in my garage dating back to at least 1988. My wife calls it my "harem".
It doesn't matter what's written on your down tube if your not a PRO.✔️👍
Oh I totally get attached to my bikes. After a ride and I'm home I always walk out to my bike and thank it for getting me to and from home safe and for taking me on such wonderful adventures no matter how far or short the ride was. My friends think it's weird but ask me if I care. I was totally waiting for you to run down and get the bike before he left. That would have been great !!!!
Never sell a bike that you love, especially frame only, as you can build it up again one day. This is the massive advantage of rim brake bikes with mechanical gears - so easy to transfer parts over. Personally I've never had an issue with Ebay but will give buycycle a look.
I sold my touring bike that I did Europe in. At the last moment, it gutted me that I no longer have her. Just wow.
I always wave to apartments and houses where I used to live when I go past. I totally get where you are coming from, and I would absolutely have waved good-bye to the courier truck if it were my trusted whip on its way to new adventures.
I have 1 bike I did not use for years now but I will never sell it. It's a Part of me. But I DO sell old bikes. Just not that special one 😊
Omg I feel the same like you when it comes to toystory with bikes xD
I stopped riding my bike 14 years ago when 62,000miles a year lost its interest & road regs were more Lax 😅
Head says “Sell” Heart says… basically what you just said! It’s not just you 😊
You can’t help developing a bond with bikes, they become part of you. There’s two or three bikes that I’ve sold that whilst it was sensible, I wish I hadn’t.
So if you were not receiving bikes and on a budget which bikes would be options
A LBS near me has an annual used bike sale. You take your bike to the shop, the staff inspects the bike and tells you the price you can expect. The shop has a one day sale of fairly priced bikes that actually are in good repair. As a seller you can get either - a check or a shop credit. If your bike doesn't sell - you pick it up the next day or it is donated to a local organization that gets bikes to those who can't afford one. That is your call. I've done it twice with bikes I no longer used and both were sold. I got some new bike parts, tires and kit - bikes are being used by someone who was told what they were getting. This shop has been around for a long time and has a very good reputation. Win - Win as near as I can tell.
I DID NOT 😁 expect this catchy-titled video to be yet another thinly veiled advert by Katie for a product. I used to love your videos, now less so
I get it and if you don’t want to watch then totally up to up :) I wouldn’t say it’s thinly veiled either… it’s defo an advert because I love the concept and company trying to keep cycling affordable and sustainable and by supporting them I’m also supported putting out content. If you knew the amount of money I turn down… then I think you would feel differently. But if my videos aren’t for you any more thanks for the support in the past and all the best to you :)
All the bikes behind you: "She never cries over us."
This bike story version of toy story really needs to happen. I'm curious if it's actually been done before or not.
Actual tears. Aw bless! Yep, we put our heart and soul into it don't we?❤
Exactly! A bike = memories!
Yuor beke is nice
Yes Katie, bikes need to go out and play.
Totally get it as sold Ribble’s al and Denis C Ridley to buy trek al 5
Hard to let them go but after a month on new bike it was like yeah this is special and off to France next week 9 days bike packing and wild camping and all because of your videos 🫡👍😎 as always very inspiring for the regular cyclists ✊
You are not crazy, it's a lovely way to think and be ❤
Oh thank you! Haha maybe we all think this… 🙂🙂🤪
You soft get! 🤣 ❤
Guess you only know what you know!
Is that app available here in the US?
Thats a long advert Katie !
What an awesome resource
I love her 😊
Everyone to their own, I couldn't get rid of my old Apollo 1998 MTB (first adult bike) so he is retired & set up as a 'dumb' indoor trainer in the shed now 😊
I'd never heard of Buycycle, thank you!
Don't bother...Seen a Pinarello on the Buycycle site , seller is in UK (nr York) and bike cost is now £350 (down from £800) but if I buy the bike through Buycycle shipping is £173. Yes, that's correct £173 within the UK!!! Wait till you see the shipping and tax on bikes from abroad. Easily add another£4-500 on top of your purchase price. Even if I bought my own bike box (new) from a reputable UK courier company it wouldn't total more than £100 and I know this because I shopped around. In a nutshell the shipping costs for Buycycle make the whole deal a no go and the site largely irrelevant for the vast majority of buyers.
I totally understand the separation anxiety thing, it would be weird if you didn't have it, each journey, and adventure, and PB, and K/QOM was a joint effort of you and your machine. When it failed, it was because of the fatigue you compounded on it after countless miles, so you repaired or upgraded it and you kept it going. When you gave up and pulled in on the side of the road to take a minute, it waited with you, it was ready at a minutes notice to carry on once you were ready. Will the next bike be the same, do the same?. When I'm letting something go, I think of the immortal words from Babe, "That'll do Pig, That'll do" or in your case, Sheepy! 🐑
I bought a Gennis Aluminium Road Bike for £220 from my local bike last year for the 2024 St Peter's Charity ride.
Great value for money.
Sadly the local bike has closed.
The shop has gone online.
1991 GIANT Allegra, 1992 Tommasini, 2008 Madone, 2018 Fuji touring and a 2000 XC Trek 8500 mtb. The Joys of my life!!
Some bikes come and go, but I have two that I will never sell. I probably spend a thousand pounds a year on new tubular tyres, Super Record 11 speed drivetrain components, SwissStop carbon pads and such to keep them both running like brand new, but it’s worth it to me for the memories they’ve given me around the world.
Thanks Katie for the video. I wanted to get rid of my 2018 Rose, will check them out. 👍🏾✌🏾
That's a really cool "Service' , I don't think we have anything like it in NZ . I clicked on your vid because I thought it was about you selling a motorcycle ! Hilarious that I feel the same-way about my bikes (motorcycles) when I'm somewhere else and they're all covered-up at home having no 'Adventures' . Every time I sell a bike I'm always sad to see it go too... I appreciate nice push-bikes also , I have a couple of mountain-bikes (one flash-one ) and a nice old vintage racing-bike that needs some love...... Dave nz
KB, you old softy (I've always thought you were a bit crazy, nothing new). But thanks a million for recommending this service.
Thanks Katie for the site! This is timely as I'm looking for a road bike under $1K just for my Zwift Hub trainer. Love your channel as I have now become a bike nerd myself.😊
Hi Katie, I recently listed my bike with Buycycle and got really good interest and 2/3 offers. However you can't ship outside of the UK and most of the interested parties were in Europe. I sent an email to customer services (really quick response) and they said "due to import issues" they cannot currently offer this. This was on the 11th June 2024. Has this been resolved?
Bought a Dawes Galaxy 30yrs old on Gumtree two years ago for £160. It was in excellent condition and I added the parts I wanted to suit me. I do lots of Audaxes on it and ultras. Just need to keep your eyes open for bargains.
I have sold a couple of bikes in NZ an S-Works Tarmac and a TCR advanced but I love my TCR advanced T-Mobile team replica and I just cannot bring myself to sell it so the frame hangs in my home office where I gaze at it occasionally and think about rebuilding it with period correct components.
Bought a new to me bike last week. It’s the biz! Spent £1500 and got a bike I could only ever dream of!
Glad to know your Buycycle seller experience was really good. My experience purchasing my Pinarello Dogma F10 through them was excellent! A great bike, a great price, great service, all with great confidence. No better way to get an Italian bike from Belgium through Netherlands and Germany to Indiana USA. Thanks for sharing!
Currently still riding 2008 Bionicon Golden Willow Scandium MTB & 2016 FELT VR30 Gravel. Getting to age where I'm considering eMTB due to dodgy legs, but can't see day when I'll sell the others as I've had so many memorable times with them!
Love my 2nd hand 2011 CAAD 10 105 hoping to do my first 100 mile charity ride tomorrow.... still use my 1994 mtb as my gravel bike.... love them both
Well my main bike I bought of a mate who'd got it off ebay, so possibly third or forth owner. I've still got most of my bikes, the other year rebuilt my old steel Rockhopper mtb hardtail for my mate to ride on his stag do, with the intension it'd slow him down on the trails, it didn't.
The site is abit crappy, you cant filter out mens,womans, small, large at least I couldn't
haha had to laugh at you looking out the window......I've never had issues with parting with anything but bike frames....its the reason why i've got 5 frames in the garage...i can justify 3 of them as used alot, but the other 2 purely sentimental and irrational to keep them, but here we are 🤣🤣 Have you kept your Giant? My first proper bike i coudn't bare to part with, sometimes get's a retro spin out up in the Dales for old times sake, but to be fair it's done alot of Europe and the Alps, plus Aus so yea purely sentimental.
The thing that makes me laugh is my older bike, non di2, non aero, rim brakes and aly frame actually isn't that much slower or less enjoyable, deminishing returns i think with bikes over the 4k mark. If i had to suddenly choose a bike to cycle around the world, i would choose that in a hearbeat over the expensive carbon bike i ride for roads. Infact everything to do with bikes has gone silly really and manufactures i think are really trying to cash in on the consumer replacement cycle, aka its now natural to get a new phone every few years, many club riders just want the "best" kit, so its each upgrade to drivetrain, gears, brakes etc, it all fits with that model. I'd still like someone to explain to me how we went from an agreed international standard for disc brakes to post mount, and now flat mount (I mean if they could reinvent the wheel shape to get a few more upgrades they would)! But yea electronic shifting will allow manufactures to launch an apparent new product, but is it under the hood in all reality....?!
My takeaway is it doesn't matter what bike you ride, you can have fun and enjoy any, and certainly safe secondhand bikes can only be a good thing, and if your riding for 6 hours, what does 10 mins really mean in the scheme of things, zero unless your competing.
A healthy second hand bike market has kept me riding the best bikes I could within my budget. All hail new bike day!
I got into cycling again as an adult by buying a old mountain bike for £12 at a Sunday village fete. Commuted to work on it and used it for some time!