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12-17-09, 06:34 PM
The current owner (the second owner) says that he just had some sort of servicing done on this vehicle. He says he bought it about 5 years ago from a friend of his who is a recumbent fanatic but the current owner says he has just never had the time to ride it and it has been sitting in his garage since then. He has kindly send me quite a few pictures of the bike. I would post but they are gigantic!
Any way, although he seems to think the bike is in great condition, it looks like a seven-yea-old bike to me. Maybe he just took the pictures before he had it serviced; the paint looks pretty nice and looking at the thing as a whole, it looks good, but then I got a look at the closeups of the back cluster that reveal some pretty cruddy looking sprockets and the pulley wheels look cruddy also. The seat looks as if it has some wear on it and may need repair in the near future. Essentially a lot of little stuff, but it might all add up.
In his ad he said he bought new tires and got it tuned up (I don't know what this means--one man's tune up is another man's brush-it-off and call it running!), and spent $400 for upgrades--but I don't know if this was done recently or when he bought it. The bike includes a rack, a rack trunk, kick stand, mirror, bell, trip odometer. The bike is red and has ASS tiller steering (jeeze that sounds rude!) and comes equipped with fenders front and rear.
In any case I will be going to go and look and ride as he has given me first right of refusal on the beast.
What do you all think? What should I look for?--Oh and the price: he is asking $725, which sounds a leetle high to me. Of course if I like it I will try to offer down, but . . .
Any thoughts?--I could e-mail you the pics if you wanted to take a look at it.
Any way, although he seems to think the bike is in great condition, it looks like a seven-yea-old bike to me. Maybe he just took the pictures before he had it serviced; the paint looks pretty nice and looking at the thing as a whole, it looks good, but then I got a look at the closeups of the back cluster that reveal some pretty cruddy looking sprockets and the pulley wheels look cruddy also. The seat looks as if it has some wear on it and may need repair in the near future. Essentially a lot of little stuff, but it might all add up.
In his ad he said he bought new tires and got it tuned up (I don't know what this means--one man's tune up is another man's brush-it-off and call it running!), and spent $400 for upgrades--but I don't know if this was done recently or when he bought it. The bike includes a rack, a rack trunk, kick stand, mirror, bell, trip odometer. The bike is red and has ASS tiller steering (jeeze that sounds rude!) and comes equipped with fenders front and rear.
In any case I will be going to go and look and ride as he has given me first right of refusal on the beast.
What do you all think? What should I look for?--Oh and the price: he is asking $725, which sounds a leetle high to me. Of course if I like it I will try to offer down, but . . .
Any thoughts?--I could e-mail you the pics if you wanted to take a look at it.