it's Saturday morning and Amie is not happy that i'm going out to pick up a flip bike right now
over an hour away but i've had this idea for a little bit to demonstrate my point about
photographs smart reasonable guy selling this bike but not the world's greatest photographer
and I think that might be at least part of the reason why he hasn't been able to sell it for over
a month Oscar you want pup cup? don't tell mommy at one point this bike was listed for 1150 and I
just got it for 800 and aside from being dirty and probably needing a little bit of a tune-up yeah it
is brand new in every way the tires even got those little hair things on them but he said he had it
listed for over a month and he said he was getting low ball offers left and right so if we just clean
it and take some really good photos we're gonna know how much the photos are actually worth
so we've got this bike back here at the shop and it's as new as it looks
the guy bought it thinking he was going to get into mountain biking he decided it wasn't for him
and i'm glad he was honest with himself because now we get to put this thing back on the trail
before it even gets close to becoming outdated the frame of course has a beautiful finish and there
are really no scratches on the bike anywhere but there are a few indicators that it was owned by
somebody who wasn't that experienced with bikes for instance some of the c-clips popped off and
the cables were all ruffled up and so he tried to do his own repair with a zip tie and it doesn't
look that professional these are minor things that we can correct in just a couple of minutes
it also looks like he made the classic newbie mistake of over lubricating the chain there's
a lot of gunk in the jockey wheel it just looks like it's been collecting dirt on every last bit
of that lubricant also as is expected with brand new bikes you need a tune-up very shortly after
purchase I don't know if he ever did that and so we're going to touch up the brakes the shifting
everything we're gonna make sure it runs like it just left the shop with that all
we have to do is clean it up and give it a tune-up so let's dig in and see what we find
so we cleaned the bike real good all the jockey wheels the chain
but before we do anything else I want to make sure to clean the rotors with alcohol
in case we got any wd-40 on them while we were cleaning the rest of the bike
so
so this bike is more or less shifting okay but there's tons of tension on the barrel adjuster and
what the barrel adjuster is is this little screw up by the handlebars that allows you to adjust
the tension of the cable but it's made for quick on-the-fly adjustments and you're not supposed
to have it all the way out like that we're going to bring this barrel adjuster back in we're going
to reset the cable at the rear so that the new owner has some space up here to make adjustments
so we got the shifting absolutely perfect this bike also has hydraulic disc brakes
and so i'm gonna make sure there's no air in the levers they feel fine they should
it's brand new but i'm gonna do it anyway and then get this bike prepped for photos
reflectors
getting rid of these is a sure way to make a mountain bike look more serious because
well no serious mountain bike has reflectors on it reflectors don't do all that much on
a mountain bike and in bike shops i'm sure there's some kind of law where you have to
sell them with reflectors but on a mountain bike trail they tend to become garbage and I know that
when i'm going to be riding in the road at night I have a light with me so a few little finishing
touches here and we're going to be ready to take some pictures of this bike except
we've got one problem this lighting is pretty much as bad as it gets if you want to shoot good
pictures or video of your bike or pretty much anything it's best to wait for when the lights
not like this so basically you want overcast or you want it to be golden hour so like 6:30 in the
morning or right before it gets dark out I would rather use a cell phone to take pictures in good
lighting than this camera and crappy lighting because over here is going to be really bright
over here is going to be really dim so let's wait around for some better light and stare at it
so if it's an overcast day you can pretty much take pictures whenever you want but on a sunny day
it's got to be late or early like it is now
so because we have a great bike all we have to do is be honest so I wrote
for sale is a 2021 Trek Roscoe 6 size medium all original if you can find it in stock you could
buy a brand new one right now for 1179.99 plus tax or you could pay cash for this one and use
the money you saved to buy helmet pads and riding shoes this bike has been on a few rides but not
enough to wear the little hairs off the tires this is kind of the entry point for a serious
mountain bike so you get hydraulic disc brakes a Deore derailleur with a clutch a dropper seat post
and real name brand tires it's been cleaned meticulously and tuned up let's make a deal
I think this is a great deal you're realistically going to be paying over 1300 for this brand new
and after you've been on two rides it's gonna look and feel exactly like this
one and I would really like to get my eight hundred dollars back so i'm willing to take
a little bit less than 9.99 i'm expecting a lot of dead end inquiries and i'm expecting a lot
of lowball offers but let's see what this gets us so the bike was listed for about a week and
I had a fair bit of interest a lot of lowball offers I dropped the price to 950 and bam all
sorts of people started messaging me so they must have had a filter on and so it's Monday raining
out i'm about to meet somebody to sell the bike and if that falls through I have a backup offer
and they're gonna have a little surprise in store once she agrees to buy the bike i'm gonna slide
in some extra stuff that she's gonna need like a multi-tool a pump gloves things like that and she
doesn't know that that's part of the deal I also snuck on some upgraded Ergon grips because why not
okay so this is interesting she wants to meet me at a bike shop I said I can't sell you a
bike in front of a bike shop that's like selling food in front of a restaurant and
she said no they know we're coming they're gonna check out the bike so she must have called ahead
I would love to see a bike mechanic check over this bike because it is dialed
we no longer have a bike it was sold the shop checked out this bike and they said
yeah it's perfect it's basically a brand new bike which we already knew so let's go back to burn
peak and get to the breakdown now the woman who bought the bike offered me 860 once she
got there and saw it and she said the reason was Bicycle Blue Book Bicycle Blue Book is assuming if
this bike is a year old it was ridden for a year this was ridden like three times this is not in
good condition this is in astounding condition and so I would not take 860 for it we met in
the middle at 900 and I did consider turning it down and going with my backup offer but
being greedy rarely pays off and it's likely I would have regretted that and so I took the cash
in hand offer that was standing before me and I think her negotiations paid off because she
got a great bike for a really good price the previous owner had that bike listed for over
a month and could not sell it until I came along we bought the bike off of him for 800
and sold it for 900 in just a week there are times when I buy a bike that is in complete shambles
go through the entire thing with a fine-tooth comb and restore everything and then we barely make
more than a hundred dollars so we know that the listing and the pictures matter quite a bit make
sure you clean up the bike take good pictures write a very descriptive and useful listing
now I know what a lot of you are thinking wouldn't it be a great ending to this video if you went and
contacted that original guy go back down to him with 100 bucks and laugh in his face well I did
consider doing that and that would be a great way to end this video but I don't feel like driving
back down to South Carolina and so we're just going to keep the extra 100 bucks and buy more
flip bikes I hope you enjoyed this video I hope you learned something and if you didn't I hope you
at least found it entertaining thanks for riding with me today and i'll see you next time you