The bike was in nice good riding condition, minus the pre-load tightening and very minor derailleur adjustment. The rest, seat and stem cap/spacer color and bar width, are all specific things you knew when you bought it. That does not mean it was not ridable. You bought it with flat tires based on what you said. You knew that going in. If you buy something used, expect to work on it. I would say if that was the worst that happened to you with buying a used bike, it was a good buy.
Same…….guy gets a $4300 bike for a grand and still complains. You chose to make most of those changes, the title makes it sound like someone tried to take advantage of you or something.
Everything you ran into is what I look forward to when buying a new to me bike. You got that for a steal, Id buy that even if I knew of those conditions..
That is a beautiful bike! Reynolds 853 steel, Kashima, XT...very nice! You stole that thing! Very well purchased! I think we are finally seeing the used market come back down. Those pandemic purchases are just sitting around and people are needing money...
I did see some videos of people doing that, but it looks sort of like a pain, and also this is my time using co2, so I wanted to make sure it would actually work before trusting it out on the trails.
No way this bike came from the factory with the RD cable mis-routed. I dare say the same thing about the chainring and bearing pre-load. This previous owner was tinker w/o knowing what he was doing. I'll guess dollars-to-donuts that he changed the number of teeth on the chainring - thus why it wasn't tight enough and the pre-load done wrong. Wonder what the explanation is for the RD cable mis-routing.
I love riding bikes road and mountain bikes, the cool technology and materials used but no way would I spend that amount of money. They're Overpriced and it seems that finally the major mainstream brands are changing. Selling at Retail Chains and price slashing. Its about time. People are not Suckers and don't want to be ripped off.
The most fun begins when you start inspecting FOX fork internals. I'm pretty sure there was zero maintaining from the beginning, based on your tale about overall bike condition.
Nampa Bicycle Project in Idaho has a voluntary bicycle repair service & they did fantastic repair work on my CraigsList beater MTB that got me down the road again. All cyclist that need help should check their local communities for fantastic volunteer bicycle mechanics that will show you how to repair your own bikes. It may be indexed under charities, volunteers, rehabilitation.
I have an older Trek 930 Singletrack , I need to replace the front shift lever , any idea where to start looking or how to tell which ones would work ? Thanks for video .
@@BruceChastain Name is Mike , Ferguson is just my handle on Utube , is there anyway I can send you a picture of the old shifter ? I also need to replace the front brake cable hanger , I took the shock off front & brake cable hanger was built into shock so the original fork that I put back on my bike doesn’t have a brake cable hanger .
@@BruceChastain Johnathan Dickenson state park. Its in Jupiter. A little far from where your at. Good trails by your area are Mt. Dora, Alafia, and Snow Hill.
