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Well it aint far off Devil ! if you do the math £30 grips£400 F/F£200 handlebars (if you can find them) stainless with the thickness of tin foil£180 wheels£ $$$ mongoose snake bellies if you can find them£200 double clamp stem taken from Davy Jones's locker (these have gone through the roof in the last few months and regret selling my nice OG one to Steve) kick myself everyday £60 bb£60 cranks£150 seatpost (if you can find one) stainless also tin foil thickness£40 seatclamp£120 brakes£80 seat£40 headset£60 pedals£160 for a pad set (if you can find them)£15 chain soon adds up and then add a spider and chainring to that if you want to ride it And if you want NOS it might as well be 24 carat
Quote from: snoopy72 on February 16, 2015, 07:13 AMNow it would cost £1500 to build a tatty supergoose Really...? Using gold & platinum?! That seems expensive...
Now it would cost £1500 to build a tatty supergoose
Quote from: Devilock on February 16, 2015, 12:52 PMQuote from: snoopy72 on February 16, 2015, 07:13 AMNow it would cost £1500 to build a tatty supergoose Patience is the key. ^^ yep
Quote from: snoopy72 on February 16, 2015, 07:13 AMNow it would cost £1500 to build a tatty supergoose Patience is the key.
Quote from: Devilock on February 16, 2015, 12:52 PMQuote from: snoopy72 on February 16, 2015, 07:13 AMNow it would cost £1500 to build a tatty supergoose Really...? Using gold & platinum?! That seems expensive...I agree... £1500 should build you more than a tatty Supergoose. For me It's all about biding your time, waiting for the right part at the right price and when needed putting your restoration skills to the test. Think some folk get the impression that if it's not NOS it's not bling. I've usually got three builds on the go so i pick up bargains for my builds as and when. When you've only got one build on the go and need a part your limited to what's available at the time and perhaps feel you've got to pay through the nose to finish it. There's plenty of chancers out there tryna make a quick buck and drive prices up but there's also plenty of decent folk who aren't. Patience is the key.
Very true, but i've never had any patience
It's a tricky one Andy - if you want to build a decent mk1 Supergoose (or Team Mongoose) you could be looking at close to these numbers for the specific bits.... maybee £1,500 is little high but you'd definitely not do it for a grand (unless you were lucky enough to have been given a frameset in the firstplace )Some of those prices are too low actually - the grips for instance, the padset if you want originals and let's face it, you're never gonna get a set of Mongoose stamped snakebellies so forget them as well, as Snoopy stated £400 for the f&f and £200 for the stem is where it's at I'd say these days
Quote from: CustardLips on February 17, 2015, 11:34 AMQuote from: Devilock on February 16, 2015, 12:52 PMQuote from: snoopy72 on February 16, 2015, 07:13 AMNow it would cost £1500 to build a tatty supergoose Really...? Using gold & platinum?! That seems expensive...I agree... £1500 should build you more than a tatty Supergoose. For me It's all about biding your time, waiting for the right part at the right price and when needed putting your restoration skills to the test. Think some folk get the impression that if it's not NOS it's not bling. I've usually got three builds on the go so i pick up bargains for my builds as and when. When you've only got one build on the go and need a part your limited to what's available at the time and perhaps feel you've got to pay through the nose to finish it. There's plenty of chancers out there tryna make a quick buck and drive prices up but there's also plenty of decent folk who aren't. Patience is the key. I'm a chancer...I want to rip-off everyone. I hate bikes; I just want to make as much money as possible, buy a spaceship & move to Wolverhampton.
hobby has changed beyond all recognition.
It's an expensive hobby, I have not been around long compared to most but I believe I am lucky to be around realistic and grounded members on here who have been kind enough to ask a fair and reasonable price for parts and also at times hung on for me to get the funds together to buy those parts, I would also like to think I too have passed that good will onto others when I have sold parts and would extend that to anyone on here. I enjoy this hobbie and have a fair to middling collection of bikes, not all the parts are NOS or I fact mega bucks but there right for me and that's my choice. It's what you make off it, you sell to buy..
Quote from: BADDH on February 20, 2015, 06:45 PMIt's an expensive hobby, I have not been around long compared to most but I believe I am lucky to be around realistic and grounded members on here who have been kind enough to ask a fair and reasonable price for parts and also at times hung on for me to get the funds together to buy those parts, I would also like to think I too have passed that good will onto others when I have sold parts and would extend that to anyone on here. I enjoy this hobbie and have a fair to middling collection of bikes, not all the parts are NOS or I fact mega bucks but there right for me and that's my choice. It's what you make off it, you sell to buy.. Don't get me wrong i'm not moaning about anyone on RAD , This is a fair place to buy items and from what I have experienced peeps are also good at describing items accurately on here but mongoose parts aren't always easy to find in the UK.I bought a set of bars from the states a while back and they were bent, after paying £110 for them I was pretty p#ssed
Quote from: snoopy72 on February 20, 2015, 06:50 PMQuote from: BADDH on February 20, 2015, 06:45 PMIt's an expensive hobby, I have not been around long compared to most but I believe I am lucky to be around realistic and grounded members on here who have been kind enough to ask a fair and reasonable price for parts and also at times hung on for me to get the funds together to buy those parts, I would also like to think I too have passed that good will onto others when I have sold parts and would extend that to anyone on here. I enjoy this hobbie and have a fair to middling collection of bikes, not all the parts are NOS or I fact mega bucks but there right for me and that's my choice. It's what you make off it, you sell to buy.. Don't get me wrong i'm not moaning about anyone on RAD , This is a fair place to buy items and from what I have experienced peeps are also good at describing items accurately on here but mongoose parts aren't always easy to find in the UK.I bought a set of bars from the states a while back and they were bent, after paying £110 for them I was pretty p#ssedYour right mate, it's outside here were it gets daft, I just look at these adverts and prices and laugh at these star Gazers, there is one Born everyday.... I wouldn't give it the time of day, I put it into a context, of small minority of lunatic's that you simply cannot take seriously. In fact there it is bingo, The title of a new thread.... An Extraordinary Minority of Star Gazing Lunatics. Anyone want to get it started feel free...
