Concord Selecta Freedom 12 - FINISHED PICS

[GTCOMA]

I know it is another road bike...

but it was too good to pass up. My mom found it today at the thrift shop for $9.65

It is in great shape, just a little dirty. Tires are even new.

The headbadge looks pretty cool too. when I do a search on Ebay for Concord Bicycle, the only thing that comes up is for of this headbadge from $17 to $27

From the little research I did it looks like the Concord bikes were made by a company named Kuwahara. It is a japan made bike

 

[necessaryevil]

Re: Concord Selecta Freedom 12

Kuwahara actually came back, a Canadian company bought the name and built some bikes/had a team for a few years, then they went bankrupt.

 

[CCR]

Re: Concord Selecta Freedom 12

ive gotta concord badge, never new what bike it went to til now, thanks ! not a bad lookin road bike neither. i believe there was also a "concorde" brand bicycle too once upon a time.

 

[jaydub]

Re: Concord Selecta Freedom 12

Nice she will clean up well..good score..Can't beat that price.. Good looking out MOM. :wink:
(A mother all ways looks out for their children)

 

[Quanah]

Re: Concord Selecta Freedom 12

I wouldn't have passed that up for sure!

 

[GTCOMA]

Re: Concord Selecta Freedom 12

this one is in the process of undergoing single speed surgery... pics to come soon

 

[mastronaut]

Re: Concord Selecta Freedom 12

I just saved one from sure scrappage at the dump, I'm currently fixing it up for the wife...

 

[GTCOMA]

Finally, here are the finished pics of my single speed conversion Concord. I ended up with a 52-20 gear setup and I am only running a rear brake. enjoy...

 

[GTCOMA]

it looks like the guy i sold it to made a few changes and is selling it on ebay. If I can get it for cheap, I'd be tempted to get it back.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Concord-track-bike- ... 011.c0.m14

 

[mastronaut]

Sorry but that thing is seriously fugly...why would you want it back other than to return it to it's geared glory? :roll:

 

[GTCOMA]

well, considering I paid under $10 for it and traded it for a brand new Xbox 360 plus accessories with a total value of $450 and the fact that i had 19 responses to my craigslist add in two days, if I could get it back for $50 I'm pretty confident that I could flip it again for a decent profit.

and besides, I think it looked quite nice when I was done with it...

who needs all those gears anyway?

 

[ish]

Yep, any steel, lugged frame with horizontal dropouts is worth way more money than it should be thanks to the fixie hipster crowd.