I am in talks to buy this bike for $2300 CAD and think it’s a good deal, but would like to get the perspective of the community, on paper this bike fits my height and inseam.
The bike has some superficial scratch’s that I’m not worried about.
I’m wondering if anyone could recommend things I should check on initial overlook and ride?
I have about 15 years experience riding in city cheap 80’s road bikes devolved into single speeds to jet around and this will be my first complete bike with gears and am excited!
Thank you for your time!
by yesyougay
5 Comments
Meet up at a shop and have the shop look it over and advise you. I’m a mechanic and even I miss things when buying a used bike. You could be screwed over because even if I make you a list of 100 things to check, you won’t know well enough how to do it and probably won’t make the time to go over it rigorously enough. A bike shop is a good way to have it checked thoroughly while not looking like an annoying buyer.
That doesn’t look like a 58
Also, this isn’t that great a deal. The Canyon Grizl for 1700 usd is new and ships to your door with comparable parts on it. Does Canyon sell to Canada?
I own that bike. I bought it new for 2250.
I personally feel like you could do a lot better for bike packing than this for the $. I haven’t been shopping for completes in a while (fingers crossed the step over crust evasion is made) but seems steep even in CAD for something that has limitations for its backpacking potential.
Groupos are really affordable now with microshift shield, so you can build up frames for less with better parts than completes.