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That first Raleigh looks more like a barn find.

The rockhopper has one piece bull moose bar/stem which are pretty hard to find. I recently picked up a 1984 Peugeot which had them stock and paid $150, in Raynham. www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/tuolumne.htm

The rockhopper has one piece bull moose bar/stem which are pretty hard to find. I recently picked up a 1984 Peugeot which had them stock and paid $150, in Raynham. www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/tuolumne.htm

Who makes those grips? The bike looks beyond great!

90's rigid, north road bars and 2" tyres make for a very comfortable ride.

Twice in a week a mention of Pittsfield. My grandmother was from there.

Where I live you couldn't sell any of these bikes for 2$ Big cities are have weird fauna...

Thanks for this video! I’m putting a Postino on my ‘89 MTB. Nice to see how it looks from different views!

This guy really doesn't know what he is talking about. the Diamondback Edgewood is a great bike. It is very durable and rides smooth.

nice video youtube recommended for me

Gallium works well. Seems scary since it looks like Mercury, but it's relatively easy to use. Scratch up the inside of the post and level the seat tube on the bike stand, horizontal to the floor. Put the gallium inside the seat post itself and let it sit overnight. Spindat has a pretty good video on that too.

That is a heck of a find. That is a great townie or commuter bike.

I think you got a pretty good deal.

Yes definitely

If I didn't have so many projects I would do the drive

I'd say it's worth the drive, kuwahara bikes are pretty nice bikes.

Throw some high pressure tires on it call it a day.

$50

Chrome Diamondback for the win!

Full disclosure. Don't try to change that back wheel. Anything close to modern will be too wide for it. So be ready to stretch the dropouts

Vy-kount, FTLOG...

These videos are so much fun! Feels like hanging out at the bike shop and talking to the guys there. I'm from Ohio - you'd probably get some fun results if you looked at Cleveland, Akron or Columbus. Keep it up!

I have an 86 Rockhopper that has many of the same features like the stem. The brake levers and grips look like what you might find on a motorcycle! Still runs, it’s my semi daily ride and I’m even using some original components.

You know it is worth $75.🙄 😊❤

nice bike, would look better if you dropped the stem down a bit, maybe an inch or inch and a half. It looks a bit dorky as is😂😂

That onevlooks clean !

I'd buy that bike for $75

$75 is a deal for sure

very cool bike .. not many 26" come with the eye lids in the forks

Beautiful color, and with the color matched stem 👨‍🍳💋

We have 'ghost bikes' here in the UK too.

Shimano or Dia Compe U-brakes will work on roller cam bosses and are very good brakes from a stopping power perspective.

Not in the least. You did what any flipper would do; added value to thr product. I have bought bikes for $50 and overhauled down to the frame and relist them at $200. A few sellers come back and offer me $50 again because it is usable. Nope, not happening.

My guess is that a lot of hipsters have moved to Asheville in recent years, they brought their single speeds/fixies with them, then realized that Asheville is way too hilly to bikes without gears, so they're getting rid of them.

Conform to the laws of physics! Love it!

I don't think Miyatas are underrated as far as vintage touring bikes go.

Joseph City has about 40 bicycles from one guy. Don't buy his Trek for $40 that's mine.

It’s not photoshopped on the first one it’s just the handle bar going into the bush

If I lived in Asheville I would want something with lots of gears. Surrounded by the highest mountains in the east. Maybe that’s why they are selling.

Interesting selection of bikes in Asheville. Do Las Vegas next! I'm curious to see what you think of the bikes here.

A touring bike also has longer chain stay's.

I got my Rincon with all the pieces for 25 bucks. For some reason the Iguanas go for a lot more. I pretty much avoid eBay for bikes (unless it's parts) because it's just a bunch of middle aged dudes selling their bikes they bought 30 years ago and thinking it costs the same as the day they bought it.

You have a low bar for what constitutes "dangerous" and "shocking." When I was growing up in the 1980s, kids rode all around town on cheap department store bikes with one or more of the following problems: - Very loose hub axle cones, especially in the rear, causing drastic wheel wobble - Bent rims - Loose spokes - Chains that would randomly pop off, leaving many of them brakeless (due to only having a coaster brake) - Worn-out kickstands that would come down when going over a bump, potentially jamming into the ground - Cheap formed sheet steel single-bolt "gooseneck" type stems that wouldn't hold the handlebars tight no matter how much you tightened the bolt - Bent pedal spindles - Bent crank arms - Very loose bottom bracket cones - Worn-out coaster brakes that required 180 degrees or more of backpedaling before they would engage at all - Cheap formed sheet steel seat post clamps that wouldn't hold the seat post tight no matter how much you tightened the bolt - Rear tires worn bald down to the threads from excessive skidding on pavement - Very loose headset cones causing drastic play in the front end - Bent forks - Bent seat post - Cheap steel side-pull caliper brakes that were so far out of adjustment and/or so full of rust and/or crud that they barely worked or didn't work at all I was sort of the neighborhood bike mechanic from the time I was about 7 years old, and I fixed some of those problems for my friends, but I obviously couldn't fix all of them without replacing parts, and who's going to buy new parts for a ratty old department store bike? Occasionally someone would spring for a new inner tube or tire from Western Auto, but that was about the extent of it. I adjusted a lot of bearing cones, a lot of caliper brakes, a lot of misaligned chain lines, removed a lot of kickstands and chain guards, and patched a lot of inner tubes. I don't remember anyone in my town ever getting killed or seriously injured on their bike back then, and none of us ever wore a helmet either.

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In the Raleigh M30 video, that mystery bike in the background is a Rivendell Appaloosa. Mystery no more!

Those are hard to find and nearly impossible for an XL. I ended up converting a 27” schwinn to 700c with long reach brakes to get good tire clearance for the touring bike I built. Changed about everything else too.

Score ! That's a great bike !

Stem seems to be not enough inserted, check minimum insertion line. Nice bike! 🤝