Amazing what people will chuck out. While computers and many items are understandably unusable or just too slow old bicycles in my opinion are often as good as many new alternatives. That Specialized looks to have better components and likely a lighter frame perhaps (chromoly) compared to many entry level store mountain bikes which have a heavy high tensile steel frame and inferior low end tourney or less components. Also I'll take rigid forks over entry level front suspension any day.
@@plaane I totally understand you can use such computers and use older computers myself but my point is the latest computers can save you time which you can use to do other stuff. There is a real time advantage to having faster more recent computers but bicycles aren't like that the speed gains are extremely marginal between bikes as basically the engine is the person not the bike. When you look at time differences what takes a super bike 60 minutes to travel might take a lower end value bike 60 minutes and 30 seconds, it is such marginal gains for such a high extra investment. If you are doing any task on a computer with a lot of computational work i.e. video editing or dealing with large documents or files a later computer can be many times faster saving you a huge amount of time. I still see huge value in older bikes and in many ways they are superior to more recent models. A steel bike for example is unlikely to have a frame or fork failure without warning where as a carbon fork or frame can fail without warning killing you if that failure happens when another vehicle will ride over you or hit you. Basically I'd rather have a fast new computer and a cheap old bike than a cheap old computer and a modern bike.
Amazing what people will chuck out. While computers and many items are understandably unusable or just too slow old bicycles in my opinion are often as good as many new alternatives. That Specialized looks to have better components and likely a lighter frame perhaps (chromoly) compared to many entry level store mountain bikes which have a heavy high tensile steel frame and inferior low end tourney or less components. Also I'll take rigid forks over entry level front suspension any day.
so many front suspension bikes of poor quality, i always pass
@@plaane I totally understand you can use such computers and use older computers myself but my point is the latest computers can save you time which you can use to do other stuff. There is a real time advantage to having faster more recent computers but bicycles aren't like that the speed gains are extremely marginal between bikes as basically the engine is the person not the bike. When you look at time differences what takes a super bike 60 minutes to travel might take a lower end value bike 60 minutes and 30 seconds, it is such marginal gains for such a high extra investment. If you are doing any task on a computer with a lot of computational work i.e. video editing or dealing with large documents or files a later computer can be many times faster saving you a huge amount of time. I still see huge value in older bikes and in many ways they are superior to more recent models. A steel bike for example is unlikely to have a frame or fork failure without warning where as a carbon fork or frame can fail without warning killing you if that failure happens when another vehicle will ride over you or hit you.
Basically I'd rather have a fast new computer and a cheap old bike than a cheap old computer and a modern bike.
buy low, clean it a bit and tighten the bolts, sell high!
add a small, large cleaning fee
Looks like a nice bike
yep it was a good deal too
Love the crocs in race mode 🌝👌
yup you got it ;)
Nice frames!
i'm picking easy projects for now
☺️👍👍🚴💯
Hi 🤩🚲