Hi all, I’ve just popped down one of the local shops for a browse and come across a rather odd bike for sale. It’s a black Giant trance with some strange spec. It looks like a middlish of the road trance with fox32 evos on it but has what looks like a brand new set of hope x2s, brand new renthal bar and stem and most strangely a fox float x with RAD stickers on it The shock didnt appear to show any traces of dust or dirt from use. Maybe they just cleaned it well?
Now what seems strange to me is that the shop is selling this for £1150, and from knowing how said shop is run that means they will have payed roughly half of that for it. I asked why the previous owner sold it to them and I was told it was because they were skint. That shock cant be any more than 12 months old and didn’t come with the bike, they cost £530 before rad tuning which I thought cost a few hundred quid? They brakes are all tricked out in red, top caps and lever etc… Which costs money and would usually only be done if you are really finishing a bike, nothing else was red.
Ignoring that fact that the shock is a bit extravagant compared to parts of the build surely a genuine owner would have broken it down and flogged it knowing the value of various parts?
Any one else thinks it all sounds a bit odd?
This is in the Devon area.
John