I was doing some garage cleaning recently and knowing how difficult it is to get a decent adult sized bicycle I decided to try and list my daughter's basically unused 26" Schwinn ranger women's mountain bike online. My wife had bought this bike for her 7yrs ago or so from Target for around $170. She's 19 now and couldn't care less. That sucker wasn't listed for a day and I had it sold for $120. I gave her most of the proceeds.
This got me to thinking.. My youngest son and I got into cruising around on our bicycles quite a bit over the past year. Pretty much every nice day for a ~3 mile ride. Sometimes a little more. The roads we ride are rural-ish, where the surface is tared and covered with fine gravel, so mountain bike style tires are helpful. I'm not an avid bicyclist, but at the onset of the 'rona, I had mail ordered myself a Mongoose Dolomite 26" fat bike that I was lucky enough to find through wally online at the time for $270 shipped. You can't find them today and when you can, they're $500-600. This bike was fine for my light cruising, but getting into this without really knowing or understanding bikes, the fame size of the Mongoose wasn't really comfortable for me, even with the seat adjusted out to nearly max.
I had my eye on a Schwinn Axum 29er, again through Wally and was 'lucky' enough to find them available online for $398 after doing a little test ride on one that was actually available at the local Walrmart a few weeks ago. (They had one axum and about 4-5 of some type of $600 carbon fiber 29er MB) The frame size and configuration of the Axum is much more comfortable for me and wow what a difference it is to ride vs the mongoose dolomite for me. It's just awesome. Yes I know I'm slummin' it big time with a cheap walmart bike, but even for what I use it for it's overkill.
After a few rides with the new axum, I listed up my dolomite online. Just sold it an hour ago for $280!
This got me to thinking.. My youngest son and I got into cruising around on our bicycles quite a bit over the past year. Pretty much every nice day for a ~3 mile ride. Sometimes a little more. The roads we ride are rural-ish, where the surface is tared and covered with fine gravel, so mountain bike style tires are helpful. I'm not an avid bicyclist, but at the onset of the 'rona, I had mail ordered myself a Mongoose Dolomite 26" fat bike that I was lucky enough to find through wally online at the time for $270 shipped. You can't find them today and when you can, they're $500-600. This bike was fine for my light cruising, but getting into this without really knowing or understanding bikes, the fame size of the Mongoose wasn't really comfortable for me, even with the seat adjusted out to nearly max.
I had my eye on a Schwinn Axum 29er, again through Wally and was 'lucky' enough to find them available online for $398 after doing a little test ride on one that was actually available at the local Walrmart a few weeks ago. (They had one axum and about 4-5 of some type of $600 carbon fiber 29er MB) The frame size and configuration of the Axum is much more comfortable for me and wow what a difference it is to ride vs the mongoose dolomite for me. It's just awesome. Yes I know I'm slummin' it big time with a cheap walmart bike, but even for what I use it for it's overkill.
After a few rides with the new axum, I listed up my dolomite online. Just sold it an hour ago for $280!
