$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.
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This isn’t worth $1 let alone $100, this is a 20 year old cheap white label branded bike from Walmart.
Keep looking for something from a famous brand known exclusively for bicycles and which doesn’t typically sell in big box stores. Trek, Specialized, Cannondale, Bianchi, Surly, BMC, Orbea, or Giant are all good examples of the sorts of manufacturers worth buying.
People massively overvalue the stuff they’re selling so if you’re looking to spend around $100, try talking someone’s old unmaintained bike down from a listing around $200 or so. Don’t bother lowballing on a recent bike that’s been serviced, flipped bikes aren’t going to be a big bargain so just get one that you’ll have to service.
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.
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.
That twist shift definitely looks like a SRAM product, Could it be one of the Sachs derived models?
Ok that’s good to know, that would be a deal breaker
Never heard of them but the bike looks like it was made in the 90s.
Obviously I don’t know your local market but I feel you could do a lot better for your money, I personally wouldn’t pay $20 for that.
However the maintenance should be fairly simple on it, I doubt very much if it will be light. If you have a lot of big hills near you you are going to struggle though which such a small selection of gears
