Thanks Ebay!

Many of you many know that I worked in a bike shop as a teenager. From age 14 to 15 I spent pretty much all my spending money (40% of my income) on building a bike. Most of that bike is the bike I still ride today. One of the first things I bought was the crank. Like the rest of the bike parts I bought, I spared no expense. It was a Grafton Joystix, anodized blue. It has some typical shimano chainrings on it and some really nice SRP chainring bolts (5 aluminum and 5 titanium).

Three weeks ago when we went out to Nevada I found this crank in my parent's garage. It also had two titanium bottom bracket bolts in the box with it. I brought it home with the intentions of maybe putting it back on my bike someday or maybe selling on ebay. Well, I didn't really want to sell it on ebay b/c I didn't think it would bring more than 20-30 dollars. I probably spent around $250 for it to begin with and that was wholesale and once bike parts get to be over 5-10 years old they become obsolete.

Well, about 2 weeks ago I looked on ebay to see if there were any already for sale and there was! It was selling for $78.00! And, I thought mine was nicer than the one up for bid. I figured then was a good time to put it up.

I put it up for 10 days, and by 5 days out it was already up to $100. When there was just one day left it was $220! I ended Thursday night and Ruth and I watched in amazement as it went from $220 to $441.00!! After seeing that first one on ebay for $78, I only hoped mine went at least that high, maybe up to $100 if we were lucky. A nice man in England bought it. Apparently there is a high demand for these cranks, especially in Europe (I had two bidders from England one from Span, and one from Germany).

Here are some pictures of the famed crank: