I see a lot of posts on IG about scoring old mountain bikes for US$200, or 200 pounds sterling - I don't know how to get a pound symbol here - and I think, 'Are you made of gold?!' Those are insane prices. Decent bikes are available here for peanuts...
1. That's a Gary Fisher HiFi, from near the end of the run for Fisher. It sounds like the fork could be in trouble based on the ad, but I've found pretty often that the average rider doesn't know the minutiae of 'modern' suspension forks. I once bought a bike with a Rock Shox SID and was told it was toast. I emptied the main and negative chambers, refilled them to spec, and it was fine. I guarantee the seller didn't know there was a negative chamber and I think that it was empty and messing with the fork's proper operation. Anyway, $125 for this seems like a giveaway.
2. It's a Cannondale Super V. Is this a good bike? A polarizing one I think. I think that's a Mag20 on there, and for sure someone has swapped in headset spacers allowing regular 1 1/8" forks to be used rather than a Headshok. I have a Cannondale Moto freeride fork that might fit this, so I just might go pick it up.
3. Yessir that is a damn Ritchey for $125. It's not one that Tom himself welded or brazed, but it's got his name on it. And I read once that even the overseas made ones had some braze-on work done by Tom. No idea if that's true though. I also read that Tom just took tubes to a muffler shop in the morning and came back in the afternoon to pick up the completed frames.
We've just having fun.
1. That's a Gary Fisher HiFi, from near the end of the run for Fisher. It sounds like the fork could be in trouble based on the ad, but I've found pretty often that the average rider doesn't know the minutiae of 'modern' suspension forks. I once bought a bike with a Rock Shox SID and was told it was toast. I emptied the main and negative chambers, refilled them to spec, and it was fine. I guarantee the seller didn't know there was a negative chamber and I think that it was empty and messing with the fork's proper operation. Anyway, $125 for this seems like a giveaway.
2. It's a Cannondale Super V. Is this a good bike? A polarizing one I think. I think that's a Mag20 on there, and for sure someone has swapped in headset spacers allowing regular 1 1/8" forks to be used rather than a Headshok. I have a Cannondale Moto freeride fork that might fit this, so I just might go pick it up.
3. Yessir that is a damn Ritchey for $125. It's not one that Tom himself welded or brazed, but it's got his name on it. And I read once that even the overseas made ones had some braze-on work done by Tom. No idea if that's true though. I also read that Tom just took tubes to a muffler shop in the morning and came back in the afternoon to pick up the completed frames.
We've just having fun.