February 1, 2009 at 12:30 am
#16192
SantaCruzRider
Participant
From the info provided, those prices seem a bit high. You also need to be more specific about the bike that was “dropped”. There’s stoplight and garage drop (usually results in bent/broken turn signals, gashes on mirrors and fairings etc…) and then there is dropped at speed where all kinds of nasty but not always easily detectable stuff happens. The former can be good for dropping price without hurting rideability, the later should be avoided at all cost by anyone lacking serious mechanical and/or bike inspection skills.
Tell us where you are and maybe someone can share some local info.
BTW: I bought my current bike used and the search took about 4 months (my wife claims it was 8 months, but the first half was ‘research’).