I am planning to pick up my first tandem bike online and wondering if this bike worth $500 the asking price? Thoughts?
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I am planning to pick up my first tandem bike online and wondering if this bike worth $500 the asking price? Thoughts?
by wp-reddit
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Tandems are stupid fun if you have the right partner. We have three of them at my house, a 70’s Schwinn Twinn, a custom frame 90’s MTB that was built as a shop tandem for an Oregon bike shop, and a 2000 Burley Duet road tandem. Not sure where you are, but I paid $500 for my Burley and drove 12 hours round trip to pick it up, but that bike was $3200 new back then.
The Zydeco was originally a ~$1000 bike, so not a high end tandem by any means. I’d throw an offer of $300 out there if it’s in decent shape and see if they’d settle for $350. Used tandems are a weird thing to price, they don’t sell as quickly as regular bikes do, but at the same time they hold their value fairly well because they’re a specialty item. If you don’t end up liking it, you’ll probably get what you pay for it back out of it if you’re willing to sit on it for a while and find the right buyer.
Whatever you do, make sure you look it over well, tandem specific components can be very expensive to replace if they need work.