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Meet Mildred my 2008 Mongoose Teocali Super. Mildred's been on the back burner for a while... as I concentrated on other projects, mainly my mate's Lava Dome.
With having to work outdoors, dark nights drawing in and less free time on my hands, Mildreds probably going to be my last project of the year.
I'd had my eye on Mildred for a over month where she'd resided in my gumtree "favourites" manky, and in need of some TLC.
Often people don't remove their ads from gumtree after their listing is sold so I was somewhat surprised she was still up for grabs after I enquired.... is it still for sale?
As you can see from the pictures and minimal wording in the ad, there were issues... "front brake and gears need attention" obviously, there was another matter of it being filthy and sporting a smatter of mismatched components. Despite this, I could see potential in the bike. An almost complete XT groupset, Rock Shox Sektor RL forks with bar-mounted lockout, Fox RP23 rear shock, FLN stem, and Ragley Bars.
Viewing was arranged ... a short test ride revealed the front brake was binding and the gears had a mind of their own. A deal was struck taking these issues and the general state of the bike into account.
Simon the owner, a middle-aged chap, had totally lost interest and basically just wanted rid which went some way to explain why he hadn't even cleaned it before putting it up for sale.
There isn't much online info about the 2008 Teocali, certainly no mention of issues that apparently afflicted the earlier frames but as this was to be my first alloy framed bike I was mindful of potential issues of cracks in the frame, etc. I needn't have worried as the frame is fine ... if it turned out to be "goosed" (see what I did there?) I could have recouped what I paid splitting it for parts.
All images are taken from the ad...
With having to work outdoors, dark nights drawing in and less free time on my hands, Mildreds probably going to be my last project of the year.
I'd had my eye on Mildred for a over month where she'd resided in my gumtree "favourites" manky, and in need of some TLC.
Often people don't remove their ads from gumtree after their listing is sold so I was somewhat surprised she was still up for grabs after I enquired.... is it still for sale?
As you can see from the pictures and minimal wording in the ad, there were issues... "front brake and gears need attention" obviously, there was another matter of it being filthy and sporting a smatter of mismatched components. Despite this, I could see potential in the bike. An almost complete XT groupset, Rock Shox Sektor RL forks with bar-mounted lockout, Fox RP23 rear shock, FLN stem, and Ragley Bars.
Viewing was arranged ... a short test ride revealed the front brake was binding and the gears had a mind of their own. A deal was struck taking these issues and the general state of the bike into account.
Simon the owner, a middle-aged chap, had totally lost interest and basically just wanted rid which went some way to explain why he hadn't even cleaned it before putting it up for sale.
There isn't much online info about the 2008 Teocali, certainly no mention of issues that apparently afflicted the earlier frames but as this was to be my first alloy framed bike I was mindful of potential issues of cracks in the frame, etc. I needn't have worried as the frame is fine ... if it turned out to be "goosed" (see what I did there?) I could have recouped what I paid splitting it for parts.
All images are taken from the ad...
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