Originally Posted by
base2
Given that perspective I'd say $90 is more than fair for all the joy and miles it will bring.
But will it bring joy? Functionality perhaps though probably only after those tires you mentioned, and a decent new tape job, and potentially only after regreasing the bearings if it hasn't been done in the last 30 years. But I can't say after test riding a number of them that I would have ever called the ride joyful.
Originally Posted by
RoadWearier
I read somewhere that they are 40(??) Pounds! Even my steel Raleigh with steels rims was 32. How could it be 40 pounds?
Cheapest possible seamed steel pipe from the 70s. I've never been convinced that the tubes are much different from black gas line pipe, just a thinner diameter.