Is it just me, or is the FB marketplace scene for fixed gear parts a complete cesspool
Whenever I'm looking for parts, I feel like I just see tons of crazy or low quality posts. Here's what ive seen:
- "give me an offer" and lists no real starting value of what they expect.
- completely crazy prices on components.
- no info on components, just "nothing wrong with it" and fails to lists measurements for crap like seatposts or handlebars or
- streams of consiousness lists of random things with no real info
- builds that are clearly too big/too small for people with ill fitting adjustments (think fizik arione saddles at a 30 degree angle and seatposts a whole foot above the bars)
- awful condition parts that look like they shoved it in mud and grime before they posted it for sale
- a frame that went through a crash and you can clearly see they had no brakes or foot retention
- people selling with names like "moochy gabagool" or "three-way goonking"
I feel like every part I've bought from marketplace has been from people more from the road/gravel scene and I've been avoiding dealing with anyone that only ride fixies.
Posted Aug 13, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC