$100 here. Doesn’t look too bad but I’m not knowledgeable about bicycles. I just know I want one that’s low maintenance and as light as possible.

  • hotcouchguy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    https://www.bikepedia.com/QuickBike/BikeSpecs.aspx?item=93187

    Aluminum frame, not bad. Components seem fine. No obvious problems that I can see.

    I’ve seen a lot of very cheap big-box store bikes of that era, a lot of them were kinda junk. This has the same aesthetic as a lot of those, so I was a little skeptical at first. It is still pretty basic, but my guess is that it would have been more middle or lower-middle tier [of big box bikes] at the time. [Or maybe not, it turns out]

    It’s new enough (2005) that it avoids a lot of the old-bike hassles like odd shifter designs and wonky brake levers and whatnot. V-brakes are more common on low-end bikes now, but at the time they were the better mainstream option, so I wouldn’t count that against it. 7-speed is probably ok with that oversized 1st gear. No front derailleur might save some hassle potentially.

    $100 is not the best deal imo (there are LOTS of bikes from that era hanging around) but depending on your local market it might be fine. I’d be more worried about buying the “wrong” bike and less worried about possibly overpaying by $20 or something. And again that might be a normal fair price locally, idk.

    Double check the frame size vs your height, ride it around the block, make sure the condition is decent, no frame cracks, all that normal stuff. Like I said, I was skeptical at first based on other bikes of that era, but this one is kinda growing on me.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Shimano Tourney derailleurs are just genuine garbage and I don’t come at this from an elitist standpoint, I’ve spent a lot of time fixing those into somewhat-workable for friends cheap bicycles and they’re the only one I’ve come across that manage to warp out of true while sitting unused in a shed. Definitely not low maintenance at all and especially not if you’ve never even adjusted a properly working derailleur you’re gonna pull your hair out especially with that insane ratio drop on the first hill gear OPs picture has going on.

      Also that website has to be wrong, they’re listing an SRAM MRX twist shifter and the tourney derailleur. They have incompatible pull ratios, that’d never gonna work out. I’d assume it’s just a tourney twist shift on OPs picture there and honestly those are garbage, too and a PITA in to service.