Originally Posted by
LucasHartong
Well, that's a way of looking at it. I like to restore vintage bikes! I'll post the pics when the MTB is ready. Today I'm going to refurbish the shocks. Nothing out of the ordinary, but I prefer re-using vintage above buying new. In the meantime I found out that the bike is from 2002 (date codes Shimano parts), so 21 years old and still running, while having been used quite heavily by the former owner... Makes me smile.
There is something to vintage bikes of quality, this is truly a wallymart bike from Giant, it could say Huffy or Magna or something and it would make more sense. You do you but I wouldn't spend a lot of time on it and zero money. It could have had some riding by the former owner but it looks like it was just left somewhere to rust at least from the pictures probably not a lot of riding.
There are tons of neat decent vintage bikes some are even actual mountain bikes that would be cool restorations and worth some time on them.