Why buy anything off craigslist?

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Bike people, for whatever reason, think that their 20 year old steel giant with 200k miles on it is worth more than a new top of the line cannondale.

I'm not sure, but I'd speculate its the same issue I'm going through with trying find US steel for my cookware. The value is in the metal being a higher quality than what is available today.

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    Chinese steel has always been shit, that's not new. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/4b5jir/people_say_chinese_steel_is_poor_quality_what/

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      Probably, like I said I don't really know bikes, but I have issues with Chinese steel. This is my hand shovel, that's not dirt, that's pitting and corrosion. It's kept clean and dry when not in use, still happened. My Chinese vegetable cleavers get little spots sometimes too despite being babied and indoors. A stray drop of moisture falling into the knife drawer will do it. But I don't see any problems on my German steel chef knife kept there too.