If you're reading this blog, you're probably a bit like me, buying and selling bikes and bike parts, out there looking for the next good deal. I'm into vintage bikes. It seems I always have one under construction. I just finished off a Trek 520 fixed gear commuter. My next project is a Jim Redcay frame.
Ebay is clearly the biggest marketplace for vintage bike parts, but the fees for sellers keep going up, and if you're a buyer, you worry about scams, shill bidding and other nefarious practices. It's enough to drive you crazy at times. Forum sites like bikeforums.net and the Paceline have classified forums, but they are difficult to search effectively, and you nothing really expires. Craigslist is another alternative, but it's really only effective locally, and is overrun with scams.
There hasn't been a really dedicated place for vintage bike nuts to buy and sell stuff until now. Tom Jordan, a regular contributor to Classic Rendezvous, recently fired up A Great Vintage, a classified website focused exclusively on vintage bikes and bike parts. "Vintage" is defined as any bikes or parts from roughly 1990 or before.
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