Originally Posted by Long Tom

Good advice, folks, and I'll put it to the test here soon. Cleaned the bike up yesterday but the free hub isn't releasing, and I haven't had a chance to figure out why. The last ride was a sloppy rain ride... I'm buying new flat pedals for a different bike so I'll slap the old flat pedals on this bike and take it out to verify everything is working as it should....

Tires on it now are good tires (Spesh front, Forte rear) with low miles, but I also have on hand some matching brand-new Novara tires that came on the REI bike I bought recently... do brand new tires have any market "pull"? They aren't great or expensive tires, I don't think anyway, but they are new... and they'd match.