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deejay

Post subject: Would you bother?

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:04 am

Dirt Disciple

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I've just bought this outside of ebay>>>

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT

I paid the £20 for it but now i'm not so sure?!?

What do you guys think?

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dirtydaniel

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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:58 am

Old School Hero

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Location: Bristol

20 bones seems alright to me :lol:

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tiboltrider

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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:18 am

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That frame looks alot bigger than your Stumpy. I'd consider getting it running as cheap as possible and selling it on.

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coomber

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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:51 pm

retrobike rider / Gold Trader

Joined: Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:09 am
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Location: Devon

Definately worth it. Build it up - you may love it.

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deejay

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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:27 pm

Dirt Disciple

Joined: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:04 am
Posts: 37

tiboltrider123 wrote:

That frame looks alot bigger than your Stumpy. I'd consider getting it running as cheap as possible and selling it on.

Thats what i thought too! Something about the seat stay angles that does it but could be an optical illusion... Ah well it'll be here tomorrow so we shall see...

coomber wrote:

Definately worth it. Build it up - you may love it.

Thats the plan fella yea. My missus needs a cycle to use so she's gonna rock the stumpy an i'ma use the rockhopper, need to start looking for some bits for it then eh!?

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coomber

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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:26 am

retrobike rider / Gold Trader

Joined: Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:09 am
Posts: 9443
Location: Devon

Looking at it, the frame doesn't look a million miles off the recent Kona's. My 2007 Cinder Cone has a similar front end and square downtube/heatube joint.

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superstu

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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:08 pm

retrobike rider

Joined: Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:52 pm
Posts: 1416
Location: Devon

I reckon it's alright. £20 isn't much to gamble. One or two of the parts will be salvagable so go for broke I say.

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Agency_Scum

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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 3:26 pm

retrobike rider

Joined: Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:10 am
Posts: 4509
Location: Bristol

Bargain! Well done mate. At that price; buy now, think later.

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deejay

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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:35 am

Dirt Disciple

Joined: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:04 am
Posts: 37

Well... It arrived this morning! It was waiting at work when i got there at 8.35 :oops:

haha.

It is actually a 23 inch frame measured from centre BB to top of seat tube :shock:

Ideal! Just what i wanted. It's very fough and ready but theres no major damage on it just scratched to death, the worst is from chain slap.

superstu wrote:

I reckon it's alright. £20 isn't much to gamble. One or two of the parts will be salvagable so go for broke I say.

Lol, yea i spose, the only salvable part is the seatpost lol...

Agency_Scum wrote:

Bargain! Well done mate. At that price; buy now, think later.

Thats my usual attitude! I must be getting old!? :lol:

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kaiser

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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:21 am

MacModerator

Joined: Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:59 pm
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Location: Sol Kitts

just out of curiosity what were the forks?

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