Originally Posted by
dahut
For $20 bucks, you can hardly go wrong. It looks intact and just needs some mechanikin'.
I wouldnt get at all excited over pedigree or that sort of stuff, though. Get it running right and ride it like you stole it.
Completely agree!!!
Too many people here seem to think that pictures are the be all tell all, when, in fact, a bad flash, angle, or just a pocket camera or lousy phone camera can throw the whole picture into weird distortions that make some here think that you bought something handled by Mothra. Heck, there are many examples here on this very forum of craigslist bike trash that is beautifully photographed, but is not worth 1/2 what you just picked up.
In my lowly, unknowledgeable, and noobie opinion, I think that you did well for 20 bucks. Heck, that thing will get a hell of a lot more use out of it than tickets for two to the movie theatre or 4 large lattes at the local coffee brew shop.
20 bucks well spent, imo. Well done!!!! Worst case scenario.....you could part it out and break even. But, personally, I'd clean it up and relube it, and not spend more than a few bucks on it and ride the heck out of it, or sell it to some student for 40-50 bucks, if you want. (In my area of the country, you could clean and regrease it and easily sell it for $100-150.....I know, ridiculous, but that is the pacific northwest and bikes)