It’s a really sweet higher-end bike from about 10yrs ago. The wheels are nice, but none of it is “state of the art”.
If you can bargain it down closer to, say $1200, it would be a good deal, assuming it fits you etc
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Technically it is probably worth that much, yes… it is a very nice bike. Would I pay that? Probably not, even though the wheels probably cost close to that, if not more, and are pretty new, it looks like, because I can’t imagine spending so much on a rim brake bike… carbon fiber rims and rim brakes are not a good combination, the added risk of catastrophic failure, in a wheel, probably the worst place for a catastrophic failure to happen, just makes the value of even top end carbon fiber rims, very low, when rim brakes are in the mix. In addition, the color way, and frame design, date this bike quite definitively. This was what a lot of higher end bikes looked like for a very short period of time in the early-mid 2010s… there are absolute bottom end bikes that mimic the look, still, these days.
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It’s a really sweet higher-end bike from about 10yrs ago. The wheels are nice, but none of it is “state of the art”.
If you can bargain it down closer to, say $1200, it would be a good deal, assuming it fits you etc
Technically it is probably worth that much, yes… it is a very nice bike. Would I pay that? Probably not, even though the wheels probably cost close to that, if not more, and are pretty new, it looks like, because I can’t imagine spending so much on a rim brake bike… carbon fiber rims and rim brakes are not a good combination, the added risk of catastrophic failure, in a wheel, probably the worst place for a catastrophic failure to happen, just makes the value of even top end carbon fiber rims, very low, when rim brakes are in the mix. In addition, the color way, and frame design, date this bike quite definitively. This was what a lot of higher end bikes looked like for a very short period of time in the early-mid 2010s… there are absolute bottom end bikes that mimic the look, still, these days.