Hi, so I just to ask you all if you would consider investing in this bike (80-90 MTB bike) and restore it or is not worthing and i should just buy another bike? im a newbie about bikes in general: i ride them but thats all, i want to learn and get more into it
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If you already own it, fix as needed and ride it. “Restoring” is more appropiate a term for bringing a top quality bike back to former glory.
Depends on what you want from it and how much you plan to ride it. The bike and parts don’t appear to be anything special. So if you plan on doing a total rehab it’s probably not worth your time or money. If you just want an occasional spin around the block it may be worth it.
You can if that interests you. It’s not going make it more valuable.
I don’t see why it needs restored. It looks fine. Restoring and modding a bike doesn’t just come down to monetary value. There’s intrinsic value, if its important enough to you. Personally I’d ditch the suspension fork and grip shifters, that’s all it needs to me.
Well I’m a sucker for special frames, so that part would say yes, go wild on it and give it some decent components (wheels, group set, brakes).
But to be honest it’s more the trasher type bike. Give it a checkup and ride it until it’s complete trash.
You could also give it some cruiser mods. It would make it cool without costing to much.
Restore! It’s the same as an old Decathlon triban bike series. The frame is very good aluminium and lightweight
Unique is not the same as valuable.
A lot of things get to be unique because someone tried out a concept or another, and when it didn’t seem worth the trouble, it died out and left a unique specimen behind.
Conventional things become conventional because they tend to offer the best balance of price / performance / reliability / looks …
You can increase performance by increasing cost, etc, etc, but there are always “sweet spots” that become conventional and mainstream.
if you like the bike and it fits you and you’d rather ride it than something nicer to begin with go for it. especially if you want to learn to work on bikes. bikes pretty forgiving but at least you won’t be frightened about going f
beyond the point of no return doing something major for it and parts transfer over if you want to upgrade frames you’ll have parts to do it. I still have the first one I fixed up it’s got $300 worth of parts on it it was a $40 bike I love it
the one more thing wait until you’re a little more advanced to try the true the rims if it’s your only set ask me how I know 😂 that turned out to be about 125 worth of parts right there
That is a tired looking aluminum frame
You can do better .. unless you live on an island
It’s a pretty cheap bike, I wouldn’t bother “restoring” or modifying it at all; instead just ride it and fix anything broken.
It’s nothing special, but every cyclist should have a beater bike for running errands, short trips, riding to areas where theft of a nicer vibe would be a concern. This would be fine for that purpose.
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One of the issues w low-mid price bikes of that era is that the tech (index shift and susp forks) were in flux. The tech of regular shifters / solid forks didn’t change for a long time so parts are more easily identifiable and interchangeable across brands (Shimsno shifters w Sunyour derailleurs, etc)
W bikes like this, replacing parts gets more tricky.
D as o by all means learn everything that this one has to teach you, but maybe check beforehand that that all the components are complete and all it needs is cleaning / adjusting.