Originally Posted by
ianthonyt
Bought it for 180!
I may need to figure out how to tune it myself, though, or pay a shop to do it. Unless someone here lives in the Bay and will teach me how! I'll pay ya!
Congrats! It's a pretty bike and in good shape. I hope the two of you enjoy it!
I'm on the other coast now, but if I still lived in the Bay Area, I would've been happy to help. We do have more than a few forumites in the neighborhood, so to speak, so you might be able to solicit some help if you mention where in the Bay Area you are.
Originally Posted by
CliffordK
Alivio seems to be a bit cheaper components than I'd expect, but it is fine.
It's got Alivio at the rear and Deore up front. Both are mountain bike derailleurs and are obviously replacements, but they should work fine since the bike has friction shifters. Since Shimano road and mountain front derailleurs use different cable pull ratios, the front derailleur would need to get swapped out if the new owner ever wants to upgrade to indexed shifting.
Originally Posted by
Hardrock23
Also, to add on to what others said above... Some nice BFers helped me out with a link to some brake levers (Tektro R341) that are made for women/small hands...
Those Tektro R341 levers are great. My 12-year-old daughter has a set on her road bike. And for those of us who don't have particularly small hands, those levers are also useful to make the brakes more reachable from the drops on compact/ergonomic handlebars.