Originally Posted by
ShadowGray
It's $20... a complete, functioning bike is worth way more than $20.
Go spend $50 on a tune-up and maybe other parts, and you have a winner right there.
Although I don't know how good suntour drivetrains are... aren't they a bit on the low end?
I'd snap it up, if it's solid, and you should be able to tell that without going to a shop. If it shifts, the brakes work and it doesn't rattle or creak, lubrication and adjustment should give you a decent everyday bike. I've bought three or four bikes from thrift shops over the years.
Suntour is not necessarily low end. Like Shimano, there were high-end and low-end Suntour groups. I have Suntour on two bikes, one of them ridden hard for more than 10 years, and it's been fine.