Cheap roadie

Resound said:

I've got a friend who's showing signs of becoming a properly addicted
cyclist. The MTB he's been using is too small and I'd like to help him build
up a passable roadie with limited means. He's about 5'9" so I'm guessing
about a 54cm frame? Anyone got a bike/frame/bits they want to get rid of
cheap?

I've got an older Graecross frame about that size... no forks or any other bits though, so it'd require a fair bit of work though...

although it does have horizontal dropouts so you could just throw him straight into the deep end and make a fixie for him...

Resound said:

I've got a friend who's showing signs of becoming a properly addicted
cyclist. The MTB he's been using is too small and I'd like to help him build
up a passable roadie with limited means. He's about 5'9" so I'm guessing
about a 54cm frame? Anyone got a bike/frame/bits they want to get rid of
cheap?

Define "cheap" 🙂

for around 1000 you can get a reasonalbe one off the rack

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I've got a friend who's showing signs of becoming a properly addicted
cyclist. The MTB he's been using is too small and I'd like to help him
build up a passable roadie with limited means. He's about 5'9" so I'm
guessing about a 54cm frame? Anyone got a bike/frame/bits they want to get
rid of cheap?

eddiec said:

I've got an older Graecross frame about that size... no forks or any other bits though, so it'd require a fair bit of work though...

although it does have horizontal dropouts so you could just throw him straight into the deep end and make a fixie for him...

Heh, don't tempt me. And to set the goalposts, this is exceedingly cheap. He's struggling a bit at the moment or I'd be looking thorough Ebay and the trading post for him. I seem to recall that Graecross is more like 55cm? That's the sort of thing though. I've got some 12spd Shimano Exage bits hanging about so with wheels and brakes we could be away.

Resound said:

eddiec said:

I've got an older Graecross frame about that size... no forks or any
other bits though, so it'd require a fair bit of work though...

although it does have horizontal dropouts so you could just throw him
straight into the deep end and make a fixie for him...

Heh, don't tempt me. And to set the goalposts, this is exceedingly
cheap. He's struggling a bit at the moment or I'd be looking thorough
Ebay and the trading post for him.

$100? $200? $500? $1000?

We may have a 2nd hand roadbike at the shop, I'll have a look on
Wednesday.

Resound said:

Heh, don't tempt me. And to set the goalposts, this is exceedingly cheap. He's struggling a bit at the moment or I'd be looking thorough Ebay and the trading post for him. I seem to recall that Graecross is more like 55cm? That's the sort of thing though. I've got some 12spd Shimano Exage bits hanging about so with wheels and brakes we could be away.

i just checked it again - it's 55cm top tube, 54cm seat tube... If you want it, it's yours for nix... i've also got some older side pull (and centrepull) brakes around here too with bundles of levers and a couple of drop bars...

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Resound said:

eddiec said:

I've got an older Graecross frame about that size... no forks or any
other bits though, so it'd require a fair bit of work though...

although it does have horizontal dropouts so you could just throw him
straight into the deep end and make a fixie for him...

Heh, don't tempt me. And to set the goalposts, this is exceedingly
cheap. He's struggling a bit at the moment or I'd be looking thorough
Ebay and the trading post for him.

$100? $200? $500? $1000?

We may have a 2nd hand roadbike at the shop, I'll have a look on
Wednesday.

We could probably scrape $100. This is sort of a beer bike project.

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Resound said:

eddiec Wrote:
> I've got an older Graecross frame about that size... no forks or any
> other bits though, so it'd require a fair bit of work though...
>
> although it does have horizontal dropouts so you could just throw him
> straight into the deep end and make a fixie for him...

Heh, don't tempt me. And to set the goalposts, this is exceedingly
cheap. He's struggling a bit at the moment or I'd be looking thorough
Ebay and the trading post for him.

$100? $200? $500? $1000?

We may have a 2nd hand roadbike at the shop, I'll have a look on
Wednesday.

We could probably scrape $100. This is sort of a beer bike project.

Heh. Ok. hard rubbish raiding time! You're going to struggle though,
the cheapest tyres I know of retail for around $50 or so a pair alone.

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Resound said:

eddiec said:

I've got an older Graecross frame about that size... no forks or any
other bits though, so it'd require a fair bit of work though...

although it does have horizontal dropouts so you could just throw him
straight into the deep end and make a fixie for him...

Heh, don't tempt me. And to set the goalposts, this is exceedingly
cheap. He's struggling a bit at the moment or I'd be looking thorough
Ebay and the trading post for him.

$100? $200? $500? $1000?

We may have a 2nd hand roadbike at the shop, I'll have a look on
Wednesday.

We could probably scrape $100. This is sort of a beer bike project.

I've got some spare bits in the shed that can be traded for beers. If the frame etc from eddiec will fit, we could get it going. We'll talk @ Goat.

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Resound said:

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Resound wrote:
> eddiec Wrote:
> > I've got an older Graecross frame about that size... no forks or

any

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> > other bits though, so it'd require a fair bit of work though...
> >
> > although it does have horizontal dropouts so you could just throw

him

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> > straight into the deep end and make a fixie for him...
>
> Heh, don't tempt me. And to set the goalposts, this is exceedingly
> cheap. He's struggling a bit at the moment or I'd be looking

thorough

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> Ebay and the trading post for him.

$100? $200? $500? $1000?

We may have a 2nd hand roadbike at the shop, I'll have a look on
Wednesday.

We could probably scrape $100. This is sort of a beer bike project.

I've got some spare bits in the shed that can be traded for beers. If
the frame etc from eddiec will fit, we could get it going. We'll talk @
Goat.

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Bikesoiler

Yay. He's been hit out of the blue with $3k worth of dentist bills so this
might be something of a Xmas pressie from me. It's the guy who came to Goat
with me once...dunno if you were there.