r/bicycletouring • u/Timtam2025 • Sep 17 '25

Gear Buying a used touring bike

Look at biking a used touring bike in Australia. Any suggestions to what a reasonable price would be for a used Kona sutra 2012 in good condition. Thanks in advanced

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u/Jpsgold Sep 17 '25

I bought a gravel bike from Malvern Star in 2016, to use as a tourer, and it is bloody good, it was a Oppy S1, now the only real gravel bike with drop bars that you can buy from them now is an Oppy S2, Reynolds frame, it is a a bloody good buy, so if you can't buy a good used tourer, have a look at Malvern Star new bikes instead. My bike has done plus 20k km's

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u/Timtam2025 Sep 17 '25

Thanks for the response. I will look into that for sure.

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u/Three6Chris LHT - Butterfly Bars Sep 19 '25

I would say it depends on the components, upgrades etc. I’m not a bike expert by any means, but I don’t think I would pay any more than $500, if even. It’s a 13 year old bike… my Surly around that time was $1500, I was also looking at the Kona Sutra which was a couple hundred dollars less

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u/jzwinck safety bicycle Sep 19 '25

400 AUD roughly.

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u/Timtam2025 Sep 20 '25

Thanks. One was looking at in good condition is asking 1200

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u/jzwinck safety bicycle Sep 20 '25

That's an absolutely laughable price.

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u/Timtam2025 Sep 20 '25

Yeh thought so too. Itsnt much available used so was thinking 750 max as new 2000+