Second-hand bicycles & cycling in St Johns typically sells for C$19 to C$2,250 (about $13 to $1,600). Frame size and groupset set the price, and condition of the moving parts sets the rest. A good frame with worn consumables is a better buy than the reverse, because chains and brake pads are cheap.
Buying bicycles & cycling in St Johns
St John’s is the oldest European-founded city in North America, built on steep streets above a narrow harbour, and its economy has run on fishing and then on offshore oil. The weather here is genuinely severe — fog, wind and rain in quantities that shape how everything is stored.
Getting a bicycle to somebody by courier means stripping the bars, the pedals and often the wheels, then trusting whoever rebuilds it. Collection in person avoids all of that and lets brakes and gears be handed over already set up properly.
What to check in person
Read the serial number underneath the bottom bracket and ask the seller for proof of purchase, because stolen bicycles circulate widely and no marketplace verifies ownership. Then look at the tyre sidewalls for cracking, which dates a long spell stood still.
Collecting it in St Johns
It needs a van and realistically two people. Ask about the stairs, the doorway and the parking at the seller’s end before you set off, because that is the detail that decides whether the trip was worth making.
The downtown streets are steep and narrow and parking on them is limited, so for anything large agree access before the day. Weather closes roads here more often than in most of the country, so agree a fallback.
Selling your bicycles & cycling in St Johns free
Offshore rotations move households on fixed cycles and the oil sector’s ups and downs move the whole market at once. The row-house stock downtown turns over with genuinely old contents attached.
Give the frame size in centimetres or inches rather than small, medium or large, and say the wheel size. Mention when the chain was last replaced and let the buyer ride it around the block, which closes most sales. Rises sharply in spring and stays strong through summer, then falls back in autumn.
Interac e-Transfer is the norm and is instant and traceable, which suits a private sale well. It is what most buyers will suggest before anything else.
Bicycles & Cycling worth listing in St Johns
Elsewhere in Canada
If nothing in St Johns suits, Toronto, Montreal and Calgary each have their own bicycles & cycling page, and a seller will often meet part of the way for something worth the trip.
More in St Johns: everything second hand in St Johns, or Bicycles & Cycling across Canada.
Prices converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate; sellers set their own price.