Bought it, washed it, and took REALLY good pictures. How much can we make?

It's Saturday morning and Amie isn't happy that I'm picking up a folding bike right now, over an hour away, but I've had this idea for a while to

make

a point about smart guy photos and reasonable selling this bike, but He's not the best photographer in the world 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, do you want a puppy cup? Don't tell mom, at one point this bike was listed for 1150 and I

bought

it for 800 and other than being dirty and probably needing a little tune up, yes it's new in every way, the tires even have those. little hair things on them, but he said he had it listed for over a month and said he was getting low offers left and right, so if we just clean it up and take some

really

good

photos, we'll know how

much

the photos cost .

It's

really

worth it, so we have this bike here in the store 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 itself because now we can get this thing back on track before it's about to become obsolete. The frame, of course, is beautifully finished and there aren't really any scratches on the bike anywhere, but there are some indicators that it was his property. by someone who didn't have

much

experience with bikes, for example, some of the c clips came loose and the cables were all messed up, so he tried to do his own repair with a zip tie and it doesn't look all that professional. minor things we can fix in just a couple of minutes also looks like you made the classic rookie mistake of over lubing the chain there's a lot of dirt on the jockey wheel looks like it's been collecting dirt down to the last bit of that lube too as expected Of new bicycles, it needs a tune-up very soon after purchase.

I don't know if he ever did that, so we're going to tweak the brakes, the shifting, everything, we'll

make

sure that's the case. It runs like it just left the shop and all we have to do is clean it and tune it up so let's dig in and see what we find so we clean the bike really

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 get some wd-40 while we were cleaning the rest of the bike, so this bike is shifting more or less fine, but there is a ton of tension on the Adjuster barrel and what the barrel adjuster is is this little screw placed next to the handlebars that allows you to adjust the tension of the cable, but it's made for quick adjustments on the fly and you're not supposed to have it all the way out. so we're going to bring this barrel adjuster back in we're going to reset the cable on the back so the new owner has some room up here to make adjustments so the shift is absolutely perfect.

This bike also has a hydraulic disc. brakes so I'll make sure there's no air in the levers they feel good they should be new but I'll do it anyway and then get this bike ready for photos. Getting rid of reflectors is a sure way to make a mountain bike look more serious because, well, no serious mountain bike has reflectors. Reflectors aren't much use on a mountain bike and in bike shops I'm sure there's some kind of law that requires them to be sold with reflectors, but on a mountain bike trail they tend to become trash and I know that when I go to Riding down the road at night I have a light with me, so a few little finishing touches here and we'll be ready to take Some photos of this bike, except we have a problem: this lighting is as bad as it looks.

If you want to take good photos or videos of your bike or almost anything, it's best to wait until the lights are off. Basically, you want it to be cloudy or golden hour, so like 6:30 in the morning or right before dark, I'd rather use a cell phone to take

pictures

in good lighting than this camera and bad lighting, because here there is It's going to be a lot of light here, it's going to be a lot of darkness, so let's wait for better light and stare so that if it's a cloudy day you can take

pictures

whenever you want, but on a sunny day it has to be late. or early as it is now, because we have a great bike, all we have to do is be honest, so I wrote that for sale there is a mid-size 2021 Trek Roscoe 6, totally original, if you can find it in stock you could buy a new one. right now for 1179.99 plus tax or you can 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 out the little hairs on the tires. This is something like that. the entry point for a serious mountain bike, so you get hydraulic disc brakes, a Deore derailleur with clutch, a dropper post and real name brand tires, it's been meticulously cleaned and tuned, let's make a deal. I think it's a great business. Realistically I'm going to pay over 1300 for this new one and after having made two trips it will look and feel exactly like this one and I'd really like my eight hundred dollars back so I'm willing to take some. a little less than 9.99.

I expect a lot of dead end inquiries and a lot of lowball offers, but let's see what this brings us, so the bike was listed for about a week and I had quite a bit of interest. from lowball deals I lowered the price to 950 and bam, all kinds of people started messaging me so they must have had a filter on and it's raining Monday. I'm about to meet someone to sell the bike and if that falls through, I'll have a backup offer and they'll have a little surprise in store once she agrees to buy the bike.

I'm going to slip her some extra things that she'll need, like a multi-tool, an inflator, gloves, things like that and she doesn't know that's part of the deal. I also threw on some upgraded Ergon grips because why not? Okay, this is interesting. She wants to meet me at a bike shop. I told him I can't sell you a bike in front of a bike shop. selling food in front of a restaurant and she said no, they know we're going, they're going to check the bike, so she must have called ahead. I would love to see a bike mechanic look at this bike because it's marked up, I don't have a bike anymore, it was sold, the shop looked at this bike and they said yeah it's perfect, it's basically a new bike that we already knew so let's go back to burn peak and reach breakdown.

Now the woman who bought the bike offered me 860. once she got there and saw it she said the reason was Blue Book Bike Blue Book Bike suppose if this bike is a year old, it was used for a year, it was used like three Sometimes, it's not in good condition, it's in amazing condition. condition, so I wouldn't take 860 for it, we met in the middle at 900 and I considered turning him down and going with my backup offer, but being greedy rarely pays off and I probably would have regretted that, so I

took

the cash. in my hand the offer that was in front of me and I think her negotiations paid off because she got a great bike at a really good price.

The previous owner had that bike listed for over a month and he couldn't sell it until I came along, we bought the bike. I

took

it from her for 800 and sold it for 900 in just a week. There are times when I buy a bike that is a complete disaster, I go through everything 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 images matter a lot. Make sure you clean the bike. Take good pictures. Write a very descriptive and useful list. Now I know what many of you are thinking.

Wouldn't it be a great ending to this video, if you went and contacted that original guy, come back to him with 100 dollars and laugh in his face. Well, I considered doing that and it would be a great way to end this video, but I don't feel like going back. to South Carolina, so we'll keep the extra $100 and buy more folding 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.