He will send you a bankers draft and tell you that he has included the fee for the shipping agent in it as well. He will ask you to do a favour for him and write a cheque for the shipping agent and send it on to the agent's address.

The bankers draft will turn out to be dodgy, but not until after your cheque to the shipping agent has cleared...

...you'll then never hear from the buyer or the agent ever again.

At least, that is what he is hoping will happen.

It is obvious from the first message that it is dodgy, he doesn't even mention what sort of bike you have.

P.S. he won't be in France of course and he doesn't want the bike