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Posted: 19:45 - 10 Feb 2013 Post subject: New bike + some questions |
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Hello cycling forum, I'm new here.
I've bought myself a bike, mainly for just cheap transport, but also because I live close to some lovely countryside, so fancy some cross country rides.
I have no money at the moment, so have bought the cheapest bike I could find. If I take to the sport and dabble in some downhill, I'll get a better bike some time.
The bike works fine, except there is no chain. Anyone know what sort of chain I need, or any recommendations? Does anyone also know how much somewhere like halfords would charge to fit it? (I don't have the tools)
Oh and the forks have no real movement in them. It hasn't been used in a while, so assume it just needs a good service?
I'll likely have loads more questions, so apologies in advance for that
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Oh and I know its not a great bike, but for the price I paid I'm surprised it isn't in bits. ____________________ Current bike: ZX6R J1
Previous bikes: CLR 125 | GS500 | ZX6R G2 | SV650 |
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Posted: 22:32 - 10 Feb 2013 Post subject: |
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You can get DMR clones for £13 brand new so I wouldn't worry too much:
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=563
The plastic pedals that come with bikes at this price range often break quite catastrophically so I wouldn't be too suspicious about what look like unbranded metal pedals.
If the guy had a load of bikes then it's probably just a bitsa, the bars and stem look fairly matched to the bike although I suspect the original bars would have been black. They're not high end bars though. There are people in Manchester that buy up loads of broken old bikes, make working bikes out of all the broken ones and sell them really cheap to students so perhaps the guy had that kind of venture going on.
Not saying it's definitely not stolen though, have a look and see if any frame numbers have been ground/filed off - They're usually found on the bottom of the bottom bracket shell.
Cheap chain tools are almost disposable but I doubt you'll need to use it more than a couple of times at most so £2.29 for a chain tool seems perfectly reasonable.
I'd avoid Halfords working on your bike at all costs, even for simple jobs. There's bound to be a decent bike shop near to you and fitting a chain is a 10 minute job at most. I bet if you got a chain (£20 at most?) from a decent shop they'd even fit it for free.
Even if you manage to make those forks work properly again it won't be long before they seize up again. As G says, they'll be fine for the road. If you end up getting into some off road stuff come back and ask us again for fork recommendations!
EDIT: Lock on grips can be had for less than £10 from the UK too, no point going all Chinese!:
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=36970
Or these if you're feeling flush, proper good these ones too:
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Posted: 00:13 - 11 Feb 2013 Post subject: |
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For the road riding, seized is actually nicer - cheap forks can bob horribly and sap your pedalling power; so might be better that way . |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 11 years, 69 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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