>>1765013>>1765020>but I'd rather recommend and old steel road frame that can fit wider tyres or can be bent to do this, some entry level modern components for drive and maybe a backswept handlebars, rather than the 90's MTBBut modern entry level components are literal junk, and if you need to bend the frame to get wider tyres it begs the question, why not recommend a bike that comes with superior components already fitted and wider tyres as standard?
i assume you are speaking specifically about the situation in your part of the world, and maybe in that case it would be better to eschew the 90s mtb, however we are living at a time when anything can be received from anywhere if not in days certainly within weeks.
Picrel sold recently for just over £200
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234416339515 it looks like any other late 80s atb but it's much more than that, it's from the Raleigh SBDU, the special projects department I mentioned in the post above, it's Raleigh's only serious attempt at a proper mountain bike with exceptional build quality and one of the finest group sets from the period, it is everything most people will ever want in a bike and it cost less than a new crankset, how much to ship this to your country? I have no idea but let's go crazy and say £250, bearing in mind I have imported bikes from the US and Europe to the UK and never paid anything like that even with import fees, but let's say to buy and ship the bike cost you £500, I argue that it is an incredible bargain, a bike for for virtually any purpose that will last more than a lifetime, a special and rare bike with the touch of a true genius, something that would be unique in almost any town or city, something that you will never find in any bike shop today for less than £2500. No modification is needed, no bending of the frame, no new groupset, to match the one it has would cost much more than £1000.
