dsh

If you find a better saddle you could probably sell it for quite a bit more than $50.

That's not to say it's WORTH more than $50, but it's a very nice looking bike and uglier things have gone for $300. It depends completely on your market. If you're in LA, yeah list the thing for $300 and no doubt some kid with your level of experience and a big wad of cash will make an offer.

Worst thing that can happen is you list the thing on CL for "$300 OBO" and nobody offers you anything.

Actually, no. That's the best thing that can happen, because you'll still have the bike.

crashtheparty

Hey y'all,

Thanks so much for your replies, I'm sorry I didn't get back to you earlier. (Dells are my favorite computers ever, they do a lovely job of completely crashing and taking all your important info with them...ugh!) Anyway, I was going to use my car as my transportation because the job I was going to take was 40 miles away and biking there was obviously not an option for me. However, I ended up with a job about four and a half miles from home, so as soon as I can figure out how to get over a narrow one lane bridge on a steep hill with a blind corner, I can bike to work again! =) One last question if you all aren't tired of me yet: When I've been riding for about 5 miles or so, especially over uneven ground, the handle bars seem to be coming loose from the head tube...I've found that if I tighten up the headset by hand (I think that's the right name for that part...the round bit that looks like a large washer) it's a good fix on the fly, but it doesn't last long. I accidentally dropped the bike one day and the handlebars were actually askew, so my dad and I loosened the headset and turned them back,and then tightened it, but it's coming loose again. Is it just that I need to keep tightening it all the time?

Thanks again for all y'alls help, one day I hope to be knowledgeable enough to come to someone else's aid.

allez

Congrats on landing a job (ANY job)!

And if your bars are turning, you have to tighten the wedge bolt in the stem (the silver elbow thing that holds your bars). There is a bolt right on top.

...probably.

crashtheparty

haha, thanks! it took forever to actually get the job (and now I'm only a month away from going back to school and having to quit!) but at least its something! and thanks for the tip...if tightening it up doesn't work i guess i'll scrounge up some money and see what the bike shop has to say about it.

hairnet

where's that?

crashtheparty

In Valencia on the way to Magic Mountain. It's not horribly steep or long, but it is too steep for me to get easily over it with any sort of speed at all. The only way to avoid it is to add about 3 miles to my trip.

TimArchy

Take it to a shop for a $15 headset adjustment. If you catch it early enough, you can save the headset. If it's been doing this for a long time you'll have to get a new one (about $30 parts and $30 labor, maybe less).

crashtheparty

thanks! i'll take it in next week hopefully.

time bandit

sticky