What I meant buy fixing "the gears" is things like the derailers and cranks, stuff like that. My parents not trusting me to fix it always brought it to our lbs where the guys would always try to hustle us to buy a new part. It soon got expensive and ended up costing us way more that it should have. I also regularly maintained the bike by regreasing and cleaning it, behind their backs. I got help from a friends dad who has been biking for 15 years now to do all that.

Also how does the Motobecan Cafe Cf and Record Cf look?