Can We Find Vintage Mountain Bikes in the Birthplace of MTBs?

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stockton350

5 күн бұрын

Happy July 4th!

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@noahfranks984 2 күн бұрын

Now i have something to listen to while i spend all day scroll through marketplace

@stockton350 Күн бұрын

I'll be making more of these scroll along videos so stay tuned and good luck finding treasures on Marketplace

@tlister67 3 күн бұрын

I did a search in Bend OR recently as I am flying out there soon. Was not as much available as I was hoping. XL frames for old Mt bikes are hard to find and I try to snag them. Those funky brakes in the back was a thing briefly 80s, my MTB-3 has one and a hard rock I worked on recently did to. Those old videos are a hoot, wish I was hip to that stuff back then.

@stockton350 3 күн бұрын

That's interesting. I wondered if these bikes were popular in the Pacific Northwest. Maybe they've just gotten scooped up. I was surprised how many nice bikes were available on the Bay area and also how cheap many of them were.

@brickinboy 2 күн бұрын

i live in marin, and interestingly enough, hoo koo e koo is the name of one of the native tribes that used to live here before colonization. Not only that, but the park service named a mountain bike trail after them, which i myself have hiked. I had no idea there was a mountain bike brand named after them. Makes me wonder which is named after the other, the trail or the bike.

@brickinboy 2 күн бұрын

its also possible that theres no correlation between the two lol

@stockton350 2 күн бұрын

Very cool. Is mountain biking still huge there?

@brickinboy 2 күн бұрын

@@stockton350 sure is! i know a lot of people who bike and there are loads of trails and bike shops around here

@davidwhocares3293 2 күн бұрын

I live in the San Francisco Bay area and bicycles are so plentiful here, there are literally thousands of them on Marketplace on Craigslist, the flea markets and the garage sales are filled with them

@stockton350 Күн бұрын

I browsed a little at listings in SF and was blown away. I figured these old bikes would get snapped up by hipsters and bike lovers who wanted to build them up. Is there just not a ton of demand?

@davidwhocares3293 7 сағат бұрын

There used to be huge demand for them, but I think during covid everybody bought bikes so they are almost impossible to sell now you almost have to give them away, it's pretty sad sad for the used bike dealers

@stockton350 7 сағат бұрын

@@davidwhocares3293 that makes a lot of sense. I remember demand exploding when new bikes weren't available. Now we're seeing the aftermath. So interesting.

@davidwhocares3293 6 сағат бұрын

@@stockton350 but I am a bicycle addict, I cannot stop bringing them home, I went garage selling this morning at 7:00 in the morning and brought home THREE MORE , just what I needed ! AAARG