[Spangly Shiny]

Having recently acquired a new bike for my Sunday offroad outings, I am in the position of now wanting a more utilitarian steed, for trips to the shops, doctors etc. I envisioned selling my Light Blue Wolfson and using the proceeds to acquire said bike. However my advertised Sram Red equiped steed has not even elicited a single enquiry. I suspect that the presence of rim brakes is seen as a big no-no in the second hand bike market these days.
Consequently I am now considering converting my  bike from sportiv duties to the more mundane everyday tasks of a city (well, big village) bike. To do that I want to fit a flat bar (posssibly featuring a bit of  backsweep and a modest riser) with trigger shifters – this is where I seek guidance. I’m looking for a bar, not a barbell (size is definitely an issue), with Exact Actuation trigger shifters compatible with Sram Red manual 10 speed derraillleurs and, of course replacement brake levers for my TRP RG957 deep drop brakes.
All advice appreciated, even the urine extraction variety – I like a good chortle as much as anyone.

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[Spangly Shiny]

Good call!

Good call!

[ktache]

Maybe some HexLox to keep all

Maybe some HexLox to keep all of those nice shiny bits?

[HoarseMann]

Fair enough. I slapped some

Fair enough. I slapped some of these on an old mountain bike and got on well with them for round town duties:

https://planetx.co.uk/products/on-one-mary-handlebar

[Spangly Shiny]

Thanks HM, but the whole

Thanks HM, but the whole point is to go flat(ish) bar for a general duties machine. Having looked long and hard at the used bike market, I’m not going to go there, so have decided to invest in the componentry to convert. That all means new brake levers, shifters, bar and stem. All together more than I would pay for a used bike, but the ability to retain all the lovely componentry I have already assembled makes up for it.
How many ‘going to the shops’ bikes do you see with a FSA SLK chainset, Sram Red d/r’s and carbon wheels? I’ll just have to get me one of yon angle grinder resistant locks.
Before and after pics when I am done.

[mdavidford]

Ah – OK – yeah, I can see how

Ah – OK – yeah, I can see how you could read it like that. Anyone who did draw up something like that would deserve a kicking for the headaches it would cause people trying to use it, but still it’s just the sort of thing you can imagine being produced by a government department.

[Rendel Harris]

mdavidford wrote:

It’s the latter – it’s the valuation of the bike (this is clear when you consider that it’s decreasing as the bike gets older). 

I could see the decrease but it wasn’t clear whether that was the year-on-year drop, i.e. after one year it’s lost 25% of its value, after two years 46% (25+21), after three years 63% (25+21+17) and so on. Thanks, that makes the very low resale estimate make sense.

[mdavidford]

It’s the latter – it’s the

It’s the latter – it’s the valuation of the bike (this is clear when you consider that it’s decreasing as the bike gets older). However, it’s specifically the valuation that an employer has to apply at the end of a cycle to work ‘lease’ period, so it’s deliberately lowballed because the whole point is to make the scheme attractive and encourage take-up. It’s basically only there at all to stop people completely taking the piss and using it as a ‘tax-efficient’ way of buying and flogging on bikes.

[Rendel Harris]

Does “acceptable disposal

Does “acceptable disposal value percentage” mean the loss you will take on the original price or the percentage of the original price you will get? Logically it must mean the latter, in which case I’d say it’s not just “a bit” pessimistic! If £2000 bikes could be had for £500 when they were a year old I’d definitely need more bike storage…

[Tom_77]

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I envisioned selling my Light Blue Wolfson and using the proceeds to acquire said bike. However my advertised Sram Red equiped steed has not even elicited a single enquiry. I suspect that the presence of rim brakes is seen as a big no-no in the second hand bike market these days.

Not sure where you advertised it and what the asking price was. Generally speaking, used bikes just aren’t worth very much. This table from HMRC is probably a bit pessimistic but the reality is often not that far off.

The upside of that is that you could get a 2nd hand city bike for not much – probably around £100 – £200 depending on what you were looking for. Facebook marketplace has lots of these.

[HoarseMann]

If you just want a bit more

If you just want a bit more of an upright position for round town duties, how about just getting a new stem, shorter with a bit more rise? Maybe something like this:

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/stems/deda-zero-18-inch-17deg-riser-stem-black-70mm/

Or even a drop bar with some rise:

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/handlebars/42-surly-truck-stop-drop-handlebar-318mm-clamp-12-deg-flare-black/

I think it would work out cheaper than going for flat bars and would retain the aesthetic of a road bike.

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