I have a friend that's thinking of selling his 84 Cycle Pro Greg Hill, looks to be in pretty good shape and he said it's rust free. Can anybody give me an idea of what's a fair asking price for this? Here it is, let me know and I'll post it up for sale in a few days.
Thanks
Jason

Flame on

Please explain.

check the thread at the top. what is my bike worth. don't worry, happens all the time.
mike

ha, lately new members have been asking price questions as one of their first posts.
it's taboo around here as this site is about discussing bikes, etc.

there is a for sale section where you can post it as a best offer, if you like.

by the way, welcome to the site and very cool bike.
Greg Hill stuff gets pricey so I'm sure your friend won't be disappointed.

If you look at the top of the page, there is a pinned post called "what's my bike worth". You should read that.

Simply put, a bike is worth whatever someone is willing to pay. There is no NADA book for bikes. Ebay is your best best to let the market decide.

Sorry guys, I must've overlooked that thread. He started looking at eBay and now thinks he is sitting on the Jewel of the Nile or something. Thanks and sorry again everybody.

Everytime this questions comes up the poster ends up getting flamed. Welcome to the site. Dont worry about it rookie mistake.

"Jewel of the Nile" you'll fit in well here with good sence of humor and a relitively thick skin.

Welcome to the insanity that is Vintage BMX dot com

oh, by the way, Greg Hill himself stops by here on occasion.

that's the day the owner MC makes us dress up in business casual and we speak in old english to commemorate the occasion.
Ye will know henceforth....

check the bars folks!

star bars?

Yeah, that bike should bring some fairly nice coin.

Cycle Pro made those under license from GHP as part of their distribution deal (GHP through Cycle Pro).

That was their top of the line model and came as a complete bike.
That one has had a few changes to the components.

Non-US made.
Essentially the frame is the same as a US-made GHP and the forks are Tange ARX.
The bars are identical copies of GHP Star Bars but not US-made.

What's it worth?
Not as much as a US-made GHP.

ohhh myyy god, this is an amazing cycle that has started on this sight what is going on, how many people just coming on to know how much? anarchy

Yep, fire up the generator an head to the bomb shelter the world is coming to an end

Any chance you could send me some detailed measurements? (ducks head as chainring whizzes across the room.)

I don't know, it looks like one of those old dirt track bicycles.
Shouldn't be worth much. Brand new ones are about 80 bucks at the store.

Well his head is out of the clouds now, I should be picking it up from him this weekend. I'll get whatever measurements you guys want and what should I look for to better describe this bike? I am not too familiar with the BMX side, I was more of a freestyle guy.

there you go, sounds like you have a nice entrance back into the hobby.

they are teasing about the measurements. it was a GHP joke from a doomed freestyle thread.

Since you are beyond the monetary value it lets you think about the things we talk about around here:

Do you keep it as is, survivor?
do you clean it up and ride it?
do you part it out and sell on ebay so you can buy a freestyle bike?
do you research a catalog pic of the original bike and return it to stock?
etc.

I'd start by sending a polite message to Greg Hill and ask if he might happen to have a scan of the original complete bike.

good luck and keep us updated on your progress.

Well I'm going to post it here for sale for him and if there isn't any interest I may buy it from him. If I did I'd like to return it to stock if at all possible but I'd need a lot of help from people to let me know what's correct and what's not. I'd probably just ride around the park, no beating on it for sure but definitely not part it out. When it's complete like this I think people should leave them complete unless the parts are way off, in this case I have no clue what's original and what isn't. Stupid question I know but what would be considered as a fair asking price for this? He's thinking of over $500 but if I'm just going to catch hell for posting it for him then I'm not going to do it. I just don't need that crap really.
Thanks

doh! we are back to what it's worth.

ok, since this question is unknown yet important to you, do one of these 2 things.

watch ebay for a couple of months and get a feel for similar completes, non-US made.
post at bmxmuseum with a best offer, but you'll probably get zero responses or 10zillion lowballs.

the market is volatile and fickle. there is ZERO WAY anyone here can tell you the value if we wanted.

for example, i gave away a set of maximizer tires in red this winter.....yet someone just posted they'd pay 500 bucks for a set. you just CAN NOT predict the market when it comes to personal needs.

make sense?

Yeah, I didn't want to ask the question on value but was forced to. Thanks and I completely understand the market thing. How do you tell if it's US made or not? I just sent a message to Greg Hill and I hear he's pretty good for returning messages.
Thanks everybody for the great advise and for being patient with me.

Andy D. is THE man when it comes to GHP detail.
what he said above is going to be exactly what it is, my man.
it's like when a college professor speaks...you listen well and write it down.

I spoke/emailed Greg Hill and he schooled me on some things about the bike. He also said depending on the market anywhere from $250-$500 so my boy is out of line in my book. I'll let him post it up when he's ready, thanks everybody.

This is my GHP 24 that I scored last year. Not all old parts, but a nice rider.

http://s240.photobucket.com/albums/ff296/t...nt=IMG_0019.jpg

Hey thanks BridgeCity - but I'm still learning too - lol.

The Dec. 1984 BMX Action has a full test on this bike listed with all the parts it came with.
The mag has not been scanned and up for download yet though.

That much??? Really??? I buy lots of GHP stuff, and I would never pay 250 for that bike.