Hi!
I'm helping my friend sell his MTB, but I'm more at home with servicing and buying/selling other kinds of bikes and parts. I'm struggling with even finding a good ballpark starting price. See pictures, I'll try to answer any questions.
Canyon Spectral al frameset
Lauf tr29 carbon fork (I guess this is worth as much as everything else combined, this is the unique part)
Thank you in andvance!
by FunkkyX
8 Comments
Not a whole lot.. I think that rear shock is undersized as well.
on a good day maybe $1200,
Boy… a random assortment of parts, put on 10-year-old frame? not much i’d say, *if* someone is even interested.
I think you’d be better off breaking it to parts. The fork could be an easy sell to some “weirdo” looking to try this style out. The rest i would either keep as spare parts, and also sell the frame – or just make it into a special use bike – jump bike maybe?
I would part it out. As a whole bike you’ll only get someone buying it for the fork I suspect.
I think he should pay someone to take it off him
A cross country fork on a FS is a really strange setup. It’s a parts bike. Maybe $400.
The thing about builds like this is you’re probably going to wind up selling it to someone who doesn’t really understand what they’re looking at. They’ll see a ridiculous looking fork and maybe think it’s a super high end build? But most people who know anything about modern MTB’s are probably going to pass on this at almost any price—it’s a real hodgepodge, and I’d want to replace almost everything so it’s just not worth it. That rear shock is lower end; the rest is a mix of decent and weird/dated parts, and none of it really seems to sync up to me.
Realistic price in my region? I’d price it at $700 but feel good if I got more than $500, but I’d expect it to sit for a while.
That rear shock calls into question everything about that bike and lowers its value significantly.