Originally Posted by
rtciv
But new parts for new bikes are so expensive, haha. Everything is sealed and disposable. When the brakes get loose these days don't you have to throw away the whole bike and get a new one...?
Being able to strip everything down with conventional cheap tools, clean and regrease things and get it back together really appeals to me - rather than shelling out more money each time, and needing all these newfangled proprietary tools
Don't think parts are too expensive, but everyone has their idea of value, and the UK / Euro market has a lot of competition, so you can find most things for a lot below retail , and there is not much on a modern bike that can't be serviced, for tools, as for as propietary tools, there are a few, but there are a lot more manufacturers making them now, so they don't cost much. comparing a bike from now, to say the 80's, the all round quality if far superior now, and getting parts for any bike over 15 years can be hard.