The house
How a sale works
The UK marketplace for steel bicycles worth keeping. We stop at 1999. We do not run an auction, and we do not sell a higher place on the page.
- 01
You write the account
Maker, year, tubeset, size, and one honest sentence. If you do not know, say so. A guess dressed as a specification is worse than a blank.
- 02
The house measures
A lot number is issued only after the bicycle has been looked at in the same light as the rest of the floor. Weight, size, and what was added later all go in the note.
- 03
It sits where the date puts it
Newest at the top. Money does not buy a higher row, and neither does a louder story. The floor is chronological.
- 04
A buyer leaves a note
No bidding clock. Someone writes what they want to know. The note stays with that lot on their shortlist until the house is live enough to carry a reply.
- 05
Eight percent, and only then
Nothing to list. Nothing for looking. The commission is taken when a bicycle changes hands, and not before.
The tariff
- To list
- Nothing
- To look
- Nothing
- When it sells
- 8%
What never makes the floor
- A frame with the serial filed off.
- A tin of paint described as a restoration.
- Carbon, or aluminium from the supermarket years.
Offer a machine
Write what you know. We will not invent the rest. If it belongs on the floor, it gets a lot number and a place at the top of the book.
Start a listing