HUGE early Saracen?? £40 south London

[swannymere]

 

[Takingabreak]

that might even be too big for @Tootyred

 

[markoc]

Surely that can’t have been an off the peg size? That’s enormous.

 

[Russell]

If anyone ever needed to understand why 29ers took off, this is it.

 

[Tootyred]

Sure, but then you now see 5'2" people sat between the wheels of 29ers....can't we just have a choice....on no.....silly me.

 

[Splatter Paint]

Sometime in the 1980s a salesman said “you’ll grow into it”. Forty years later I wonder if the owner ever did

 

[7Speed]

Sometime in the 1980s a salesman said “you’ll grow into it”. Forty years later I wonder if the owner ever did

I didn’t grow into my first 21” MTB…I think nearly everyone has a story like this as a kid into MTB in the 80s? My next bike was 16.5”. Maybe everyone else was just more clued up than me! Character Building to have a heavy unwieldy bike as you really get into cycling…But this takes the biscuit - has to be for a 6’5” + rider? I only know one rider this bike would reasonably fit and he lives on the other side of the world and is 6’10” - good to draft .

 

[Tootyred]

Pity im not near there.....that looks ideal!

Oh...amd I don't do "friend face" or whatever you kids call it.

 

[swannymere]

Oh...amd I don't do "friend face" or whatever you kids call it.

My brother has an account on which he's never put any details and hasn't posted but uses it to access marketplace. Maybe that's an option rather than missing out?

 

[27motorhead]

I use to live near there many years ago. If I was still in London I would have cycled down and collected it for you @Tootyred

Think I'd need the cargo bike for collecting that size frame as hanging it off my back/bag just wouldn't work!