>>1472834Ok sure. Buying a new complete bike makes sense
Especially if you want a mtb with modern performance.
The other guy is right that restoring an old bike can be a hastle. But when you said you wanted a project, that's the point. There's stuff to do. It's fun. You learn things. You acquire useful tools.
I just meant to say that Bicycles are more like cars than computers. You wouldn't buy a bunch of new parts to try to build a new car, unless you were putting serious money into racing it and really knew what you were doing and had informed niche wants.
If you wanted a fun project and to learn about cars and wrenching, you'd buy a cool old car, probably in worse condition (just by their very nature there will be things to do, even if you buy one in good condition), and work on it. You could buy a complete bomb and totally overhaul it, or you could buy something that runs, and have fun driving it while you improve it over time.
Likely you will fuck it and you move onto the next one and do better with it. If you buy a car that was pretty common, there will be proprietary parts in junkyards for cheap, and standard generic parts in shops to buy new. Sure there's a chance unseen things are badly wrong but older cars and especially bicycles are resilient and modular. You might have to pay for help on a few things, and you'll spend money on tools, but relatively for a project, it can be inexpensive, and if you pick a good project and put work into it, you'll probably end up with something that while not -faster- than a nice new car, is cooler and more fun.
Bicycles are like that. And everyone who ends up building a custom new modern car or bicycle will have cut their teeth messing around with old stuff.
>>1446619that is the kind of thing you could buy and restore for the same or less or much less money than a new entry level bike.
It's not like legos on a computer.
