Originally Posted by
golfer007
Ok, he is bringing it for me to look at in Salem instead of Portland which is helluva lot closer for me to travel and he said he could do it for $50. Should I try to talk him down from the $50? He doesnt really seem to know a whole lot about bikes. If I cleaned it up and everything, do you think I could get like $150 out of it on CL? Those wheels are 700c, right?
From the seat tube decal, it looks like a pre-'87, so the OEM wheels would have been 27", not 700c. It's possible he replaced them with 700c when he switched to the Suzue alloys since there's only a 4mm difference in radius and the brake pads could probably be adjusted to reach 4mm lower.