What bike has the best resale value?

[jmoore]

Definitely nothing larger than 60cm will bring back any money.

[d_douglas]

The comment about technologies is true. Disc bikes with QR axles, no drilling for electronic systems, traditional disc cable housing and straight headtubes can drive the price down (sp the disc issues). I sold a ti disc Desalvo here late last year and it was a gorgeous bike, but the tech was dated, so it was priced accordingly.

Ironically, the older the tech, the more timeless the design is: rim brakes, a straight HT, etc. like a 10yr old Moots mean that it is a 'classic' bike.

My Desalvo, nice as it was, was stuck somewhere in the middle of modern and classic.

[Clean39T]

Originally Posted by jmoore

Definitely nothing larger than 60cm will bring back any money.

Center-to-Center or Center-to-Top???

[82Picchio]

Brian Baylis.

[82Picchio]

Originally Posted by everbeek

New frame in June 1999 - $2,000. Seventeen years and 100,000 km later sold frame for $2,150.

But how much did you pay for the JB repaint?

[uber]

I have sold a few bikes and can't say I did well on the sale of my Moots, Spectrum, Eriksen or Cervelo. I did ok on a Peg and the best on a Speedvagen. Like others, I buy the bikes I really want to ride with little expectation of getting back a significant amount of the cost. If the OP is trying to enjoy a great bike in the most economic way, a used Moots, Peg or a Colnago would be my recommendation. An MXL would probably be a great choice too. Buying new, however....not as good.

[ColonelJLloyd]

Lynskey

[Llewellyn]

Considering that my frame by Dazza is on the smaller side of what most people seem to ride and it has "Carl's bike" on the top tube I imagine that there's probably zero resale market for it. Maybe it's just as well that I plan to keep riding it until I can't ride anymore

[everbeek]

Originally Posted by 82Picchio

But how much did you pay for the JB repaint?

It was always white. Richard Sachs frame bike colors have always been whatever the customer wanted. Red was popular.
-Mike

[pbarry]

Originally Posted by ColonelJLloyd

Lynskey

Well done.

[9tubes]

Another point on a Ti bike like Moots/Ericksen is that the material doesn't age and can always be re-brushed or blasted. Add decals and the bike looks and rides identically to when it was new. Steel can rust, carbon can crack, but Ti just keeps going.

[martl]

I bought a pre-owned Vamoots frameset, rode it a couple of years, and sold it on for the same amount.
If you get a Colnago top-of-the-line model and take good care of it, it should not devalue much, same to a lesser extent about Bianchis (provided they're in celeste). Can't say the same about many other marques. A 1950ies Rene Herse maybe

[Andrevich4]

The one you don’t ride.

[don'TreadOnMe]

A Don McClung 29er

[cgolvin]

Originally Posted by jmoore

Definitely nothing larger than 60cm will bring back any money.

Those on the other side of the size spectrum suffer just as much.
Alas.