I bought a mongoose dual suspension mountain bike today, and it has the Fox Float on the back that was in his working order. Has the handlebar mounted lockout lever that functions well too.
The frame and forks were trashed, so I picked off the good bits and recycled the rest.
I'm trying to work out a value to put on the shock as I don't need/want it.
I'm in Australia, so the market might be a bit different, but I don't know if it's worth $80 or $250. There seems to be a very wide price range on these. I'll clean up the bolts and stuff before I list it. This was straight off the bike.
I'm off to bed as it's after 9pm here, but I'll see the answers in the morning. Thanks in advance!
by oztrailrunner
11 Comments
Tbh I would never consider buying such an old shock or MTB hardware in general, for different reasons; reliability, performance, tunability, spare parts for repair and service and warranty.
On top of that there is a good chance that sizing standards changed too much over the last years, so the possibility of even mounting that shock is somewhat low.
Maybe there is a small market for that shock of retro bikes and enthusiasts, but I can’t imagine that it is big and that you will get anything above 30 bucks or so
Around 80$ might be fitting. One can get a used Fox Float X for 100-180$. I’ve even seen Fox Float X2 for around 200 bucks.
It is worth approximately $0 give or take $20 or so
Probably needs a Service and new bushings, which might be quite hard and expensive to aquire. So unless you find someone who is ok with the maintanance your probably better off tossing it in the bin…
I’d say about tree fiddy
That’s not mit, but early 2000s from about 1999-2003.
It’s not worth much in the present form unless you find a tuner that will still mod them.
It’s not even worth 80 and will absolutely need a rebuild.
I would max give about 25-30 for it, especially considering it’s not collectible like you may.believe, it has no real damping technology and basically is the only thing they had at the time and they were more or less placeholders. Be thankful if you never rode one.
I own two of these. The internal damper is non user serviceable (unless you have a death wish) and tends to go after about 10 years.. which was 10 years ago.
It may be worth something to a vintage collector for spare parts but to anyone else, you would think they would have the sense to buy newer or go rockshox (user serviceable).
I still use this model because I love my old bikes. However, I wouldn’t buy yours because even in 2002, specialized used proprietary rear shocks! While similar in appearance to the “specialized” length ones on the 01/02/03 fsr stump jumpers, yours is actually a more standard eye-to-eye length.
I think you will find it very hard to sell at all. I mean put it up for 80$, but I would expect no more than 10.
A sixpack of beer. Unless you have such an old bike that NEEDS this shock no one is going to buy it
You’d get 3/5ths of fuck-all for that, mate.
Put it up on eBay for $5-10, you might find someone looking for a nostalgic decoration. I have my 1999 Indy C from my first bike on my garage wall.