Originally Posted by
merlinextraligh
if you don’t do your own work, thorough overhaul of new tires, new tape, new cables and housings, new bearings, truing wheels, New chain new cassette, adjusting shifting, is still likely to be a few hundred.
So the delta between updating this bike, and a brand new may not be as big you thought.
Yeah, sorry, I forget not everyone has a closet with tubes, tape, housing, tires, patches, grease, and the tools to break things down, clean them, and reassemble/replace just sitting around.