for somewhere around $50 to $80 maximum if someone is really seeking that particular model. You might have to wait 2 months or so listing on CRAIGs to sell a Varsity etc. These old bikes are great college campus bikes.much more durable than any $160 Walmart-Target bicycle and easier to service and set up. Homeless bums might want to steal the Schwinns because they are durable and easy to service and "bombproof".
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They leave their expensive bikes at home because they know that bike thieves don't want to commit a crime for such a hassle to sell it as it might take 2 months being listed on Craigs unless it is being offered when students are returning in the fall. The only reason the college students buy old Schwinns when the come to University is because the cost is low. Most ordinary folks though do not want to overpay for something that they deem as antique and obsolete but durable. "I just have to have it type of thing" so the sunk cost means nothing to me. $200 isn't much for my budget, so like some folks, I don't worry so much about overpaying for any bike if I love the color and the size is is a. Typically $125 to $150 for the nicest looking with clean paint and new tires etc.$95 to $120 for those that are faded or scratched up but still have new or nearly new tires and are perfectly roadworthy and fully serviced.
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Only in the fall, when the many thousands of students come to campus, do the market prices for such Vintage Schwinns reach their peak of about $150 tops for a bike that needs absolutely nothing and is in perfect roadworthy condition.
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They get much more than typical NON-COLLEGE TOWN marketplace prices during student enrollment each fall. There are plenty of retired folks that live in cities with large universities that have a small sideline business of re-habbing old Varsities/Collegiates/Suburbans/Continentals/Speedsters/Breezes/Travellers etc.