Buy 2nd hand or return to old bikes to road?

[Mars]

Depends where I had to leave it. Something nice in the wrong place won't be there when you want to go home.

[anonymous-user]

£200 can get you a good road bike secondhand these days, just look for a giant defy, carrera virtuoso, dawes giro, specialised allez or something smilar... ideally something thats been used regularly adn will be well maintained.

re-commissioning old stuff is a nightmare, especially bikes that have been stored for a while. Ignoring the fact that the mtrax is heavy as lead and will be a pretty unpleasant ride, both bikes will probably also need new cables, new tyres and a few other bits. once you have spent £20 on a new chain, you will find that your cassette/jockey wheels may not run smoothly on the new chain....

nice s/h every time.

[ShredderXLE]

If the Dawes looks old and ste (the worse the better) stick it on ebay with a listing to the effect of

OMG Cool Retro Dawes Fixie Colombus 531 Colnago

and then a load of hipster d!ck heads will bid on it and you will be cash rich. Even if it is not reynolds 531, columbus tubing or a Colnago - this does not seem to bother them.

Not sure about the mountain bike though.

[mattviatura]

ShredderXLE said:

If the Dawes looks old and ste (the worse the better) stick it on ebay with a listing to the effect of

OMG Cool Retro Dawes Fixie Colombus 531 Colnago

and then a load of hipster d!ck heads will bid on it and you will be cash rich. Even if it is not reynolds 531, columbus tubing or a Colnago - this does not seem to bother them.

I am genuinely tempted to try this with an old Diamond Back F&F. Any pointers on writing the advert?