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Old 08-15-17 | 03:13 PM
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corrado33
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Bikes: 199? Landshark Roadshark, 198? Mondonico Diamond, 1987 Panasonic DX-5000, 1987 Bianchi Limited, Univega... Chrome..., 1989 Schwinn Woodlands, Motobecane USA Record, Raleigh Tokul 2

Originally Posted by Salamandrine
Wow, actual Stumpies? Maybe I should take a road trip to Bozeman. You might find an old Hard Rock or something for that price, but not a Stumpjumper, at least not normally.

That was the case here to maybe 10 years ago, but it has changed. I'm sure some folks still get a lucky deal.
Yeah. We've definitely sold quite a few stunt jumpers for around that price. We definitely had one a month or so ago when we also had a "street stomper." I know that because I put them side by side to compare the graphics. (The street stomper and stunt jumper graphics look very... very similar. So much so that all of us thought the bike was a stunt jumper until we looked very carefully.)

The thing is, for most people, they're just old mountain bikes. There really isn't anything special about the stunt jumpers (they weren't the first, and today they aren't really... comparable to modern bikes), and no one is going to buy a 20-30 year old bike that's been clearly used for any decent price. We sell most rigid old mountain bikes for $100-$160. If it has a front suspension fork, that could go up to $180. I don't recall ever selling an old mountain bike for more than that. (Unless full suspension or newer.) I mean heck, we GIVE AWAY beat up vintage mountain bikes. (Much to my dismay.) We have a super cool green univega something or other at the shop right now that's being given away to somebody who needs it or sold for $100. I think the bike is super cool, personally.

That said, we do have a really early Fisher at the shop that is in immaculate condition. Despite being a hard-tail, we'll probably ask a few hundred for it. (Once we can get the crank off of it to fix the BB. The threads are stripped, and we can't grab it with a gear puller, and we don't want to do the usual "hammer a pickel fork between the BB and crank" for fear of damaging the frame. We're thinking of making a tool with "hooks" to grab the 5 arms of the spider securely.)

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