I hate selling bikes to friends. Come to that, I hate selling bikes, pretty much. Buying them is usually a vast entertainment: unexpected discoveries, surprise stumbles, and occasional great success. But selling? It can be a truly tedious and all too often miserable process, especially at times like these when prices are not entirely what we might describe as rising rapidly. They may be rising faster than a submarine flooding its tanks during a ‘dive dive dive!’ situation, but not much.
An easy example. A couple of months ago I spotted a Norton for sale, a