Does anyone own this bike?

[WeskusMTB]

Hi,

 

I've been offered a MTB for sale. It is a Cannondale Scalpel Serial no. ZM56292. Any way I can verify if this is not a stolen bike?

 

Please see attached. The lefty might have been fitted afterwards.

 

Thanks

[JeremyCPT]

Very old Lefty on a 2016 Frame. Couldve been a frame warranty replacement.

[Lizzard30]

Thats a 2016 scalpel 2..when you say offered to purchase is the bike to cheap that you are being cautious about the deal or what..

[nickc]

How much do they want for it, that could be the giveaway to whether its stolen or not.

Also who is selling it, only a serious cyclist would have a top end Cannondale.

[Kalahari Vegmot]

Also who is selling it, only a serious cyclist would have a top end Cannondale.

Oh, I beg to differ!

[Fox3]

Oh, I beg to differ!

Hahahahahaha...nice!

[nickc]

Oh, I beg to differ!

Okay - you got me there.

 

Let me rephrase, if the person is maybe an unemployed labourer or really looks down and out one might question what he is doing with a high end bike.

[GLuvsMtb]

Okay - you got me there.

 

Let me rephrase, if the person is maybe an unemployed labourer or really looks down and out one might question what he is doing with a high end bike.

So that is why I’m being ignored whenever I browse at the local ‘dale store. I usually pitch up unshaved, in a old short, t-shirt and plakkies with paint speckles all over them.

 

 

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[Wayne Potgieter]

So that is why I’m being ignored whenever I browse at the local ‘dale store. I usually pitch up unshaved, in a old short, t-shirt and plakkies with paint speckles all over them.

 

 

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Nail on head.

[nickc]

So that is why I’m being ignored whenever I browse at the local ‘dale store. I usually pitch up unshaved, in a old short, t-shirt and plakkies with paint speckles all over them.

 

 

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Okay, I admit defeat

[Pah Bear]

Think that's a 2015 frame. Stand to correction.

 

Think the 2016 model they fused the triangle top tube where it joins the seat tube.

 

But then again ... what's in a year.

[s14phoenix]

So that is why I’m being ignored whenever I browse at the local ‘dale store. I usually pitch up unshaved, in a old short, t-shirt and plakkies with paint speckles all over them.

 

 

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Funny story... walked into the Ferrari dealer in Cpt like that and was offered a rather nice cup of coffee etc...

 

I asked the salesman if he really thought someone dressed like me can afford a car like that - his answer was that it's the suits that are the posers and if you could walk into the showroom without worrying what you are wearing then you are more likely to be a genuine potential buyer.

 

must be reversed in the cannondale shops...

[Simon123]

Funny story... walked into the Ferrari dealer in Cpt like that and was offered a rather nice cup of coffee etc...

 

I asked the salesman if he really thought someone dressed like me can afford a car like that - his answer was that it's the suits that are the posers and if you could walk into the showroom without worrying what you are wearing then you are more likely to be a genuine potential buyer.

 

must be reversed in the cannondale shops...

 

I have an incredibly wealthy friend who just has zero fashion sense, likes his old school sneakers, shorts and t-shirts, yet over the past 15 years has made a fortune.   

 

He once told me how he rocked up to a show house of a V&A apartment in the Marina development and the estate agent asked him to leave.   He ended up browsing another one for something like R10m MORE a few units down and put in a signed offer right away he loved it so much.    Same when buying cars, he says the super car dealers treat him better than the VW ones when he wanted to buy his father an Amarok bakkie.  

 

Food for thought.

[Lizzard30]

So that is why I’m being ignored whenever I browse at the local ‘dale store. I usually pitch up unshaved, in a old short, t-shirt and plakkies with paint speckles all over them.

 

 

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Haha same here... my occupation is tyre industrie.. so imagine what i look like each day.. no one take me serious when i enter a shop and want to buy a bike...lol

[Letum911]

I have an incredibly wealthy friend who just has zero fashion sense, likes his old school sneakers, shorts and t-shirts, yet over the past 15 years has made a fortune.   

 

He once told me how he rocked up to a show house of a V&A apartment in the Marina development and the estate agent asked him to leave.   He ended up browsing another one for something like R10m MORE a few units down and put in a signed offer right away he loved it so much.    Same when buying cars, he says the super car dealers treat him better than the VW ones when he wanted to buy his father an Amarok bakkie.  

 

Food for thought.

 

Not that my old man is nearly "incredible wealthy", but he has a car shopping outfit which comprises of: The oldest T-shirt he can possible find, this has in the past included a shirt that was demoted to a car wash rag a few times, his old worn out slops (with a piece cut out by hand cause it was hurting his big toe) and sail shorts (those plastic/sail material shorts you get from Mr Price).

 

So he walked into BMW the one day, and after a few mins of browsing was barked at by one of the sales people and sent in the direction of the 2nd hand dealer on the corner. He left the dealership, walked into Merc and bought a handful of ML's for the company... To this day it's still a laughing point every time we pass a BMW dealership!!

[Hairy]

So that is why I’m being ignored whenever I browse at the local ‘dale store. I usually pitch up unshaved, in a old short, t-shirt and plakkies with paint speckles all over them.

 

 

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sounds like my work outfit!