CCM 1973 all Original.

Any Ideas?

My first post...your patients is apprectiated. :/

Hi and welcome. Is it for sale or do you just want an appraisal? I might make an offer on it depending on where you are located - ? It's hard to tell the size from the photo, is it a boy's bike - small? If you have a measuring tape handy, how high is the top of the saddle from the ground? Thanks, Brian R.

Sorry, I just noticed you had a measurement in your original post. In older days, CCM's adult bikes used 28" tires and boys and girls bikes had 26" tires. I don't know what the situation was by 1973, but a frame 30" from the ground with those rims could indicate a boy's bike. I think children's bikes are worth less than adult bikes. Let me know where you are located.

The top tube is 21" from seat to handle bar post and the seat post is 17 1/2".  I am in Saskatchewan. Crank shaft is 6 1/2".  Actually I would like to have it appraised but a reasonable offer would be appreciated. Thanks for responding Brian. 

Top tube is 21 1/2".... I suppose the addition 1/2" makes a difference? :p

I just sold one like that for $ 300, It depends where you are... On the west coast where there are fewer old bikes a bit more than out in the frozen east...frozen...'cept now wnen you can fry an egg on the top of your bike seat...

FYI, it should be a 1974 model, as the 1973 version was gold and they went to red for 1974.  The Ranger was marketed as a juvenile model and the offical frame size was 18".  FWIW, I wouldn't be able to get anywhere near $300 in my area but my market area is quite depressed and I believe that Lawrence lives in one of the three top bicycle markets in Canada.

Please tell, what are the "three top bicycle markets in Canada" and where is your area where it's depressed? 

yes i would also like to know so I can go buy some bikes there

I'm asking because I have wondered about this very question. I wonder if I've been paying too much for bikes, and I'm not sure how to appraise the bike in this post if I'm in Toronto and he's in Saskatchewan. I wasn't trying to be funny.

I didn't think you were trying to be funny, and I wasn't trying to be funny, I would also really like to know.

Because i have a hard telling the value of a bike, and i've been known to overpay, so says the girlfriend.

There is a reasonable vintage bike scene out here, where degenerate pedal-heads ride from beautiful spot, to beautiful spot, and drink a fair amount of beer. This keeps the price of vintage bikes reasonably high. Sometime we ride in costume....Mexican wrestlers for example.

Pretty sure these guys are drunk...

Same

We have a ride every weekend   Wig ride...yes everyone puts on a wig...

Price is a function of demand. Demand is higher for used bicycles in large metroplitan areas, particularly those with a large munber of  college and university students. If you live in a small city or town without a big student population and a good distance from a large city, you aren't going to get anywhere near the same prices. If you want to find bicycles at good prices start looking a few hours away from the larger centres. 

As for actual selling prices, that's a bit more difficult to determine. They don't necessarily correlate to the asking prices you see in advertsiments. The ones which disappear quickly probably sold for asking price or very near to it. The ones that are still sitting around months after being listed are obviously overpriced for the market. If a bicycle has been sold, there's no harm in asking the seller what he got for it. 

Lonescot, your bike is in beautiful original condition. If it were in southern Ontario I would try to buy it from you. I can't speak to values in Saskatchewan, (I'm in Toronto where downtown condo hipsters like vintage bikes), but in my opinion it's worth something in the $175-$275 range. If it were an adult bike (28" tires) and/or older than 1960, and/or a Motorbike model with double top tube, that would push it over the $300 mark. Less than $100 gets you a rusty original, a crappy repaint, or a parts bike. Others may have a different opinion. Sorry it has taken this long to get to your question (hey! nobody ever replied to my what's it worth? post about the Eaton's banana seat bike).

I am 100% with you Brian R., might as well not have a "What it's worth" category, there is never any answers.

And those bicycle rides are kind of weird Laurence!!!

I've seen very few cases where somebody has supplied a photo and has not gotten at least one response with a dollar figure. 

What do you think my Eaton's purple banana seat bike is worth?

Sorry Brian, but I really don't follow hi-riser pricing. However, I do know that girl's' models don't sell for anywhere near the price of boys' models. Name brands also sell for more than private label brands, especially with generic models like this. Finally, it was made in a Communist country and whether it is warranted or not, bikes made during the 1960s and 1970s in former  Communist countries like Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary don't have a good reputation with the general bicycle buying public.

I like the comments on other sites... its worth what ever someone is willing to pay for it.... I am collecting a few bikes from the 40's-80's; I would rather keep them than sell them for a few hundred dollars :) I also ride a newer cruiser which was only $600.00 and rides great; but there is nothing like the feel of a vintage bike... classy!!!