Rodeo Bike Swap terms of use

1. About these terms

Version 1. Effective November 13, 2026.

1.1 These terms are an agreement between you and Rodeo Adventure Labs, LLC (“Rodeo”, “we”, “us”). They cover Rodeo Bike Swap (“Bike Swap”), the used-bike classifieds board on rodeo-labs.mom.

1.2 These terms add to the rodeo-labs.mom Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. Where they say something different about Bike Swap, these terms control.

1.3 By browsing Bike Swap you agree to the parts of these terms that apply to browsing. You accept them in full when you tick the agreement boxes to post a listing, post a want ad, send your first message as a buyer, or take part in an ownership transfer.

1.4 Each time you accept, we record your account, the date and time, and the version of these terms you accepted.

1.5 The agreement boxes you tick at those steps are part of these terms. If a box and these terms ever disagree, these terms control.

1.6 If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use Bike Swap.

2. What Bike Swap is, and Rodeo’s role

2.1 Bike Swap is a free classifieds board. Private owners in the United States list used Rodeo bikes and framesets, buyers post want ads, and buyers and sellers deal with each other directly.

2.2 Rodeo is the venue only. We are not the buyer, the seller, or anyone’s agent, broker or escrow holder in any sale. We charge no fee and take no commission. Money never passes through Rodeo.

2.3 We do not inspect, test or verify any bike listed on Bike Swap. We do not know how a bike has been ridden, stored, crashed, repaired or modified. We make no statement about any bike’s condition, safety, rideability, value or legal ownership.

2.4 We run a few limited checks, described in these terms: a stolen-bike registry check on the serial number, a match against our own sales records, a comparison with earlier listings of the same bike, and staff review of listings. None of these is an inspection, an endorsement, or a guarantee. A listing going live on Bike Swap does not mean the bike is fit to ride, is as described, or is free of any claim.

2.5 We do not mediate disputes between members. Bike Swap has no dispute, claim or refund feature.

2.6 We may review listings, want ads and public comments, but we have no duty to monitor Bike Swap and do not promise to catch any particular problem.

3. Who may use Bike Swap, and what may be listed

3.1 To post, message, comment, report or register a bike you must:

• be 18 or older;
• live in the United States;
• be a private individual acting for yourself, not a business, dealer or reseller; and
• have a Rodeo account in your own name with accurate details.

Anyone may browse without an account.

3.2 You are responsible for everything done through your account. Keep your login to yourself and tell us if you think someone else has used it.

3.3 Only these may be listed:

• Rodeo Adventure Labs complete bikes and framesets;
• that you own and have the right to sell;
• that are located in the United States; and
• priced in US dollars.

Parts, components, wheels on their own, and other brands may not be listed.

3.4 Bike Swap is for owners selling their own bikes. If you post more than three listings in a year, we may review your account to confirm you are not selling as a business.

3.5 Rodeo sells its own demo bikes through the Rodeo store, not through Bike Swap.

4. If you are selling

4.1 Your bike, your description. You are fully responsible for the bike’s condition and for how you describe it. Rodeo is not.

4.2 Honest disclosure. Each listing asks for a condition self-rating, six yes/no disclosure questions answered to your knowledge, notes and photos. Your answers must be truthful and complete to the best of your knowledge. If something changes while the bike is listed, update the listing. All of this is public.

4.3 Right to sell. You confirm the bike is yours to sell, is not stolen, and is not subject to anyone else’s claim.

4.4 Serial number. We ask for the frame serial number and a photo of it. If the serial cannot be read, we may still open the listing if we find the bike in our order records, but we do not have to. They are never shown publicly. You and Rodeo staff can see them. If you choose, Rodeo will email the serial to one named buyer you are in a conversation with. Each send is logged.

4.5 Stolen-bike check. We send the serial number to Bike Index, a public stolen-bike registry. If it matches a reported bike, we hold the listing and contact you. We do not tell the public about a match. A clear result is not a guarantee that a bike is not stolen.

4.6 Review and removal. Every listing is subject to our approval. If we cannot match the bike to our records, we may ask for more information, such as a receipt, before publishing it. If the bike has been listed on Bike Swap before and your disclosure answers differ, we may ask you to check them. We may hold a listing for staff review (you will see “Under review”), reject it, or remove it at any time.

4.7 Apparent damage. If a listing appears to show damage that has not been disclosed, we may pull it and ask you to have the bike assessed by a qualified bike shop or technician. Our staff do not diagnose bikes from listings.

4.8 Listing period. Listings run for 30 days. Relisting is free. End your listing promptly once the bike is sold or no longer for sale.

4.9 Contact details. You may choose to show your email and phone number to signed-in members. If you do not, buyers reach you through Bike Swap messages.

4.10 Your sale, your obligations. You are responsible for following the laws that apply to your sale and for any taxes on it.

4.11 No warranty claims. The bike carries no Rodeo warranty for the buyer. You will not tell a buyer otherwise.

4.12 Shipping. Unless you and the buyer agree otherwise, you are responsible for packing the bike safely and for damage in shipping. Any shipper we mention is a suggestion only. Rodeo is not responsible for a shipper’s service.

5. If you are buying

5.1 Your decision. You alone decide whether to buy a bike, what to pay, and whether it is safe for you to ride. Listings are written by sellers, not by Rodeo.

5.2 Inspect before you ride. A used bike can have damage or wear that does not show in photos or in a seller’s description. Have the bike fully inspected by a qualified bike shop or technician before you ride it.

5.3 The deal is between you and the seller. Price, payment, shipping, pickup and returns are for the two of you to agree. Rodeo cannot recover money, reverse a payment or make a seller take a bike back.

5.4 No Rodeo warranty. A used bike bought through Bike Swap carries no Rodeo warranty. See section 12.1.

5.5 Buyer acknowledgment. Before your first message to a seller, and again at ownership transfer, we ask you to confirm you understand these points.

5.6 Paying safely. Our advice: never pay a deposit to hold a bike. For a local sale, pay when you collect it. For a shipped bike, use a payment method that protects buyers. Buy only bikes listed on Bike Swap, and do not pay anyone who contacts you another way. This is guidance, not a guarantee.

6. Want ads and offers

6.1 Want ads are free, run for 30 days, and each member may have up to three active at a time. A want ad may not include contact details and has no message box.

6.2 The only way to reply to a want ad is to offer it a full public listing. The member who posted the want ad can then message the seller or pass, choosing from a fixed list of reasons.

6.3 A want ad is not a promise to buy, and an offer is not a promise to sell. Nothing is agreed until the two of you agree it.

7. Messages, public questions, reports and blocks

7.1 Private messages. Buyers and sellers message each other on Bike Swap. Email notices about a message do not reveal either person’s email address.

7.2 Automatic removal. We automatically remove contact details, links and the listing’s serial number from public text, and serial numbers from messages.

7.3 When staff read messages. Rodeo staff read a conversation only when someone in that conversation reports it or when a valid legal order requires it. Each staff view is logged.

7.4 How long messages are kept. Messages are deleted 24 months after the listing closes.

7.5 Public questions. Signed-in members can ask public questions on for-sale listings. A member’s first comment is held for staff review. Questions close when the listing ends.

7.6 Report and block. You can report a listing, want ad, comment or conversation, and you can block another member. Report in good faith.

7.7 Limits. We limit how many messages, conversations, questions, reports, serial sends, want ads and added bikes a member can make in a given period.

7.8 Your words. You are responsible for what you write and post on Bike Swap.

8. What you may not do

8.1 You may not:

• list a bike that is stolen, that you do not own, or that someone else has a claim over;
• give false or misleading information about a bike, its history, or yourself;
• hide damage, repairs, crashes or anything else the disclosure questions ask about;
• use Bike Swap as a business, dealer or reseller, or pose as a private seller when you are not one;
• list anything other than Rodeo complete bikes and framesets;
• defraud or try to defraud anyone, including through fake payment confirmations, overpayment schemes, or requests for verification codes or account logins;
• harass, threaten or abuse another member, or keep contacting someone who has blocked you;
• post contact details or links in public text, or work around the automatic removal of them;
• post photos or text you do not have the right to use;
• open more than one account, use someone else’s account, or get around a suspension or a rate limit;
• scrape or copy Bike Swap content in bulk, or use it to send advertising;
• file reports you know to be false; or
• claim a transfer coupon for a sale that did not genuinely happen through a Bike Swap listing.

8.2 If we believe you have broken these terms, or that your activity puts other members or Rodeo at risk, we may do any of the following without notice: remove or hold your listings, want ads or comments; limit what your account can do; withhold coupons; and suspend or close your access to Bike Swap.

8.3 We decide these things at our discretion. We are not required to explain a decision, though we will usually tell you when we have acted on your listing or account.

9. Sales records, the public archive and your content

9.1 The records line. Rodeo uses its own sales records (web store orders and accounting sales records) to show an automatic line on a listing. The line can show the year, model, version and size that the serial number was sold new. It can also show that the seller’s account matches the original purchaser, or that the bike was sold through an authorized dealer. Where we cannot match the serial, the line can instead show that the seller’s account bought a bike of that model and size new from Rodeo, and the year.

9.2 Your choice. As the seller you see the records line in preview and can opt out of showing it.

9.3 What the records line is not. It is a fact drawn from our records, matched automatically to the serial number the seller entered and the seller’s account email. It is not an inspection and says nothing about the bike’s condition, history or safety. It appears only when our records match, and a listing without it says nothing either way. Our records can be incomplete or wrong. A “Rodeo owner since” year, drawn from the same records, may also appear.

9.4 Public archive. When a listing ends (sold, expired or withdrawn) it stays public as part of that bike’s history. The archive shows the disclosures, notes, photos and asking price.

9.5 Anonymising an ended listing. You can remove your name, location, description and photos from an ended listing. Rodeo staff can do the same. The bike’s details, disclosures, price, dates and outcome stay. This cannot be undone.

9.6 Your content, our licence. You keep ownership of the text and photos you post. You give Rodeo a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, copy, reformat and display them on Bike Swap and in the public archive, for as long as the archive exists.

9.7 Marketing is separate. We will not use your photos in Rodeo marketing unless you tick the separate, optional box that allows it. That box covers photos only. You can withdraw that permission for future use by contacting us.

9.8 Your right to post it. You confirm that you own what you post or have permission to post it, and that it does not break anyone else’s rights.

9.9 Photo data. We re-encode photos and remove location and camera data before anyone else sees them.

10. Ownership transfer, My bikes and safety notices

10.1 How a transfer is recorded. A sale is recorded as complete on Bike Swap when the buyer registers as the bike’s new owner. The seller invites the buyer, or accepts the buyer’s request, and the buyer types the full serial number from the frame. An invitation or request that is not completed within 14 days lapses.

10.2 What registration is. Registration is Rodeo’s record of who to contact about a bike. It is not a title, a bill of sale or proof of ownership. It does not change any rights or duties between buyer and seller, and it does not transfer any warranty.

10.3 Safety notices. When you register a bike, you agree that Rodeo may contact you about that bike with safety notices, by email and, if you gave a number, by phone call for urgent notices. Safety notices are not marketing. We never add you to our newsletter automatically.

10.4 My bikes. You can add a Rodeo bike you own without listing it, and remove a bike with “I no longer own this bike”. Register only bikes you own, and keep your contact details current so a safety notice can reach you.

10.5 How long we keep ownership records. We keep ownership records indefinitely so that safety notices can reach the current owner. We keep them even if you ask us to erase your other Bike Swap data.

10.6 Safety review. Rodeo reviews listing disclosures and public questions for signs of possible product defects, and may contact registered owners as a result. This review is part of Rodeo’s own product safety work. It is not an inspection of your bike.

11. Transfer coupons

11.1 What they are. When a bike sold through a Bike Swap listing is transferred on Bike Swap, Rodeo may issue two coupons: a trade-up coupon to the seller and a welcome coupon to the buyer. Each is 5% off one whole order at the Rodeo store.

11.2 When they are issued. Coupons are issued only when the bike was sold through a Bike Swap listing, both the seller and the buyer have confirmed the transfer on Bike Swap, and Rodeo staff have released them. No coupons are issued for a bike marked “Sold elsewhere”. Rodeo staff are not eligible for transfer coupons. A member who buys from or sells to Rodeo staff still receives their own coupon.

11.3 Coupon rules. Each coupon:

• can be used once;
• is locked to the account email it was issued to and cannot be transferred;
• expires 3 months after it is issued;
• cannot be combined with any other promotion, discount, sale price or wholesale pricing; and
• has no cash value.

The welcome coupon cannot be used on complete bikes or framesets.

11.4 What they reward. Coupons reward registering the transfer, not the sale. They are a thank-you from Rodeo, not part of the deal between buyer and seller.

11.5 Rodeo’s discretion. We may withhold a coupon, including where we believe a transfer is not genuine. We may change or end the coupon programme at any time.

12. Warranty, disclaimers and liability

12.1 No Rodeo warranty on used bikes. Rodeo’s warranty covers the original owner only. It does not pass to a later owner, and a bike bought through Bike Swap carries no Rodeo warranty. Link to warranty policy.

12.2 Bike Swap is provided as is. We provide Bike Swap “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties about Bike Swap, express or implied, including that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure.

12.3 Members and their bikes. Rodeo is not responsible for what members say or do, for the accuracy of any listing, or for the condition, safety, legality or ownership of any bike offered or sold through Bike Swap.

12.4 Release. If you have a dispute with another member, you release Rodeo and its owners, employees and contractors from all claims and damages arising out of that dispute, known or unknown.

12.5 Limit on what we owe. To the fullest extent the law allows, Rodeo is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits or data, arising from Bike Swap or these terms. Our total liability for all claims arising from Bike Swap or these terms is limited to US $100.

12.6 What this section does not do. Nothing in these terms limits any liability that cannot be limited by law. This section does not change Rodeo’s responsibilities as a manufacturer under product liability or product safety law.

12.7 You cover Rodeo for your own conduct. If someone brings a claim against Rodeo because of your listing, your content, your sale or purchase, or your breach of these terms, you will indemnify Rodeo and its owners, employees and contractors for the resulting losses and reasonable legal costs.

12.8 State law. Some states do not allow some of these limits. In those states the limits apply only as far as the law permits.

13. Disputes

13.1 Between members. A dispute about a bike, a payment or a deal is between the buyer and the seller. Rodeo will not mediate it, decide who is right, or refund anyone.

13.2 With Rodeo: talk to us first. If you have a complaint about Bike Swap itself, contact us at bikes@rodeo-labs.mom. We will try to resolve it with you within 30 days before either of us starts a formal claim.

13.3 Governing law. Colorado law governs these terms, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.

13.4 Where claims are heard. Any claim arising from Bike Swap or these terms must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Denver County, Colorado, and you and Rodeo agree to those courts. Either of us may instead use a small claims court that has jurisdiction.

13.5 Any claim must be brought within one year of the event it is about, where the law allows that limit.

14. Privacy and your data

14.1 Our Privacy Policy explains how Rodeo handles personal data. For Bike Swap in particular:

• Export. You can ask for a copy of your Bike Swap data: your listings, the messages you sent, your purchase records and your registered bikes.
• Erasure. If you ask us to erase your data, we delete your draft listings, anonymise your other listings, remove your message text and safety phone number, and delete your Bike Swap purchase records. Your store orders and our accounting records are not changed, so those purchase records can reappear from them. We keep ownership registrations, for safety notices.
• Bike Index. We share the serial number of a listed bike with Bike Index to check it against stolen-bike reports.
• Sales records. We use our own sales records to produce the records line described in section 9.
• Outside requests. Requests for member information from outside parties, such as police, insurers or someone in a dispute, go to an administrator at Rodeo. We release information only with a subpoena or court order, or with the member’s consent.
• Newsletter. Using Bike Swap never adds you to our newsletter automatically.

15. Copyright complaints

15.1 If you believe a photo or text on Bike Swap copies your work without permission, send a notice to bikes@rodeo-labs.mom. Tell us what the work is, where it appears on Bike Swap, how to reach you, that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised, and that your notice is accurate and you are the owner or act for the owner.

15.2 We will remove material that appears to infringe and tell the member who posted it. That member can send us a counter-notice. We may close the Bike Swap access of members who repeatedly infringe.

16. Changes, ending and general terms

16.1 Changes to these terms. We may update these terms. Each update gets a new version number and effective date. If a change is material, we will ask you to accept the new version before you next post, message or transfer.

16.2 Changes to Bike Swap. We may change, pause or close Bike Swap, or any part of it, at any time.

16.3 Ending your use. You can stop using Bike Swap at any time and withdraw your listings and want ads. We may suspend or end your access as described in section 8.

16.4 What carries on. Sections 9 (archive and license), 10.5 (ownership records), 12 (warranty, disclaimers and liability) and 13 (disputes) continue to apply after you stop using Bike Swap.

16.5 General. These terms, the site terms, the Privacy Policy and the agreement boxes are the whole agreement between you and Rodeo about Bike Swap. If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we do not enforce a term, we have not given it up. You may not transfer your rights under these terms to anyone else. Nothing in these terms makes you and Rodeo partners or agents of each other.

16.6 Contact. Rodeo Adventure Labs, LLC. Email: bikes@rodeo-labs.mom.