Did they make a Spitfire or has it been re-badged?
Edit: Yes, they did.
Edit: Yes, they did.
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Good info from the CABE:
https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/wartime-columbia-spitfire-redo.174681/
https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/wartime-columbia-spitfire-redo.174681/
Prolly paid retail in these parts but I had to pull the trigger.
I've had a love for the Jamis Dakar since about 2009. I paid $150 for this beauty and it's four hours away... but I have a plan.
I tried text, then email. Was patient for 30 minutes. Called Lloyd. God bless you Lloyd, he readily agreed to pull the ad if I was serious about the purchase.
I assured him I was and thanked him for his trust. I offered payment now by a couple different means but he said he'd hold it for me until I can get down there from Rockville.
I had planned to drive to my bro's house in Orange County in September but may have to move that trip up a bit.
21"seatpost seat tube, I'm golden.
I've had a love for the Jamis Dakar since about 2009. I paid $150 for this beauty and it's four hours away... but I have a plan.
I tried text, then email. Was patient for 30 minutes. Called Lloyd. God bless you Lloyd, he readily agreed to pull the ad if I was serious about the purchase.
I assured him I was and thanked him for his trust. I offered payment now by a couple different means but he said he'd hold it for me until I can get down there from Rockville.
I had planned to drive to my bro's house in Orange County in September but may have to move that trip up a bit.
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Spectre, XTR, …….
Nice
Nice
I've paid a lot more for a lot less. Lol
MattiThundrrr
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Beautiful, love the chrome.
bargain price if in my neck of the woods, prolly $400 min if the seller knew what he had, XTR anything is precious like gold here, people in the know in most places around the world it seems are buying even whole bikes just for anything deore LX and up that is in good condition myself included, the LX is like windows XP the most bomb proof operating system that doesn't take much to run in my opinion anyway, I don't think there's really a great modern equivalent as long as your not going above 8speed or LX for 9speed with the older stuff, I'm getting away with running old friction shift with LX and a deraileur hanger extender to run big 46 tooth 9 speed cassettes for gravel with little issue but that's another story
Paid $100 for this ~97 Schwinn, prolly a Frontier. Seller had it tuned sweet and these photos are his.
I believe the Rolf wheels are from Trek, double spoked and spin nice. Avid 20 V's, crank and FD are LX, RD is XT.
Super light, fork is what it is... lol. Tires too. I had doubts until I took it for a spin!
Is this a hundred dollar bike in your hood?
The Frontier (and the Ranger) were usually the entry level or 1 up from entry level. Your bike is much better.
Yours looks to be a Mesa GS or Mesa GSX. VG condition. Clean. A great score for $100. I sold a steel frame Schwinn Impact yesterday for $100 and I thought that was a low price for it. The buyer knew he was getting a bargain and it was just what he wanted.
The high end Schwinn bikes during the Scott ownership era were the Homegrown bikes. ($2k+)
The Shimano parts have date codes on the back sides. 2 letters for year & month. Look up a few and that will narrow the age down pretty well. The Scott era serial numbers won't decode to years very well as they were mfd all over.
Vintage Trek dot com component dates page has the tables for several brands.
The Judy fork was Rock Shox entry level line for for a few years. Pretty basic model.
Yours looks to be a Mesa GS or Mesa GSX. VG condition. Clean. A great score for $100. I sold a steel frame Schwinn Impact yesterday for $100 and I thought that was a low price for it. The buyer knew he was getting a bargain and it was just what he wanted.
The high end Schwinn bikes during the Scott ownership era were the Homegrown bikes. ($2k+)
The Shimano parts have date codes on the back sides. 2 letters for year & month. Look up a few and that will narrow the age down pretty well. The Scott era serial numbers won't decode to years very well as they were mfd all over.
Vintage Trek dot com component dates page has the tables for several brands.
The Judy fork was Rock Shox entry level line for for a few years. Pretty basic model.
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Thanks Rick!
Surprisingly in my hood it would be to much works out great for me though
The frame seems well made. Is this bike worth upgrading the fork? I'm thinking winter bike, backup bike now that Dirty Harry's being ridden by my bro!
Oh no I think you did awesome for 100 bucks nothing in our market sells we pick up cinder cones for 50 bucks. Be an awesome winter bike ever year a sacrifice one
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I think Rick is correct--apart from paint, graphics and Rock Shox Jett, it looks a lot like my Mesa GSX. Definitely my kind of everyday rider. In the DC Metro area, I paid $50 for mine in 2015...then sold off $30 worth of unneeded accessories. That was a pretty good score.
$400 plus (conservative) easy to the right person over here but you could wait awhile before it sold to the right person, as I've said before somewhere, there is a massive uptake in anything LX/XT up for grabs especially if your in the restorative ATB/MTB genre, I would pay a hundy just for the RD FD shifters and brakes but of cause location is dependent, $100=top score in my book
I too am in agreement. The bike looks like lots of fun and if you start pricing some of the parts individually, it will quickly surpass what you paid for it. Some of the parts may be a bit dated compared to today's stuff but so is a '62 Corvette. Look, if the purchase is going to keep you second guessing yourself, I've got a "C note" burning a hole in my pocket if it helps you sleep at nite.......
I haven't pulled the trigger. Tempting even at that price.
After the mouth-breathing subsided... I'm gonna pass.
Running low on cow storage.
Happy New Year, y'all!
Running low on cow storage.
Happy New Year, y'all!
