I’m wrapping up another one of these at the moment… Putting $400-$500 worth of parts on an old hybrid I picked up for $80.
Inevitable_Air_7310 on
Im yet not over the beater bike phase, but i left the cables a bit longer to eventually fit wider bars 😗✌️
flower-power-123 on
I looked at the 150 euro beater I picked up last summer. I plan to sink 2000 euros into it and I do need to park it at the supermarket. This is a real quandary. The brakes just don’t work at all. The chain has rust and the shifting, well, I don’t even know where to start. I guess there is a middle ground but If I commit to hydraulic brakes I have kind of made an irrevocable decision. Every part on the bike is going to be expensive.
mb_en_la_cocina on
That’s me. And the components are not even that expensive, but since I put it some nice bold colored components now it screams for attention. And now it has sentimental value that is above the resell value.
chickenlizard on
if you look at parts and labor like therapy costs the entire funnel is brilliant and very financially viable
ripanddestroy on
Don’t buy a used mountain bike unless you plan on using the frame to build a really expensive bike that would have been nice 20 years ago and it impossible to maintain because the parts are all obsolete.
FOGSUP on
This always happens to me! 😆
millenialismistical on
Every beater on FB Marketplace is a potential bar-hop bike but I don’t even really drink anymore.
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I’m wrapping up another one of these at the moment… Putting $400-$500 worth of parts on an old hybrid I picked up for $80.
Im yet not over the beater bike phase, but i left the cables a bit longer to eventually fit wider bars 😗✌️
I looked at the 150 euro beater I picked up last summer. I plan to sink 2000 euros into it and I do need to park it at the supermarket. This is a real quandary. The brakes just don’t work at all. The chain has rust and the shifting, well, I don’t even know where to start. I guess there is a middle ground but If I commit to hydraulic brakes I have kind of made an irrevocable decision. Every part on the bike is going to be expensive.
That’s me. And the components are not even that expensive, but since I put it some nice bold colored components now it screams for attention. And now it has sentimental value that is above the resell value.
if you look at parts and labor like therapy costs the entire funnel is brilliant and very financially viable
Don’t buy a used mountain bike unless you plan on using the frame to build a really expensive bike that would have been nice 20 years ago and it impossible to maintain because the parts are all obsolete.
This always happens to me! 😆
Every beater on FB Marketplace is a potential bar-hop bike but I don’t even really drink anymore.