Originally Posted by
Monster Pete
Sound advice here. A lot of these bikes were bought, ridden a few times, then stashed away in the owner's garage when they decided cycling was too much effort. As such, you can pick them up for next to nothing if you look in the right place, and are usually only in need of a good service. Being a mountain bike, it will be strongly built and well capable of carrying you and your gear on the road. You can't always fit drop bars to them easily, but a trekking bar or flat bar with bolt-on bar ends are reasonable alternatives.
Can you tell me where this 'right place' is
Ya Chris, I'm going to keep looking. I've sent out a message to all the cycling hoarders I know around here, hopefully something comes back
I will let ya'll know what I come up with.
You guys probably saved me lots of pain, suffering, and money. I'm pretty hard headed, only one dude locally was screaming at me to get a different frame; it wasn't enough. When 10 people in a row said the same thing here, that did the trick. Once again, thank you.