Hi.
First post here from me, wish I'd found the forum sooner as it looks excellent.
I have recently had my cira 2003 Scott Expert Racing mountain bike (photo attached of it now, post refurb) mechanically refurbished with my local specialist and I am looking to put it up for sale but, and I always hate being this person, I genuinely have no idea what to advertise it for in terms of if it's a saught after classic or just another old bike.
I am its first and only owner, buying new from Hargreaves Cycles in Millbrook Road Southampton in I think 2003. The bike is running on a mixture of original parts or anything that has needed to be replaced in its 22 year life has been replaced with similar or OEM parts. It's had a riser bar and front hope disc brake fitted (v.brakes on the back as standard) but that's it for the upgrades.
Bike has just had a full service and mechanical refurbish including correct new chain, new cassette, pair of new OEM equivalent MTB tyres, new bottom bracket, new seat post clamp, new rear brake cable, two new inner tubes and two new jockey wheels. On top of that the bike was stripped and cleaned, fully lubricated, derailers adjusted, rapid fire shifters stripped serviced and v.brakes serviced. The bike is still on it's original Rock Shox Judy TT front suspension which rebounds and works fine.
The paint work on the bike is the beautiful anodized mid blue but it is chipped in a few localised places, but nothing terrible.
I will advertise the bike for sale here but it would be really good to get some people's experience on what they think would be the correct price to advertise it for. Having searched forums, ebay, Gumtree and anything else I can think of there wasn't another one of these for sale so very hard to judge price.
It would be good if it could go to a suitably caring home. The bike hasn't been ridden in anger for around 13 years and has been dry stored and covered in my garage. Suspension works as it should and after the refurbishment the bike has been test ridden and is now good to use.
Many thanks.
First post here from me, wish I'd found the forum sooner as it looks excellent.
I have recently had my cira 2003 Scott Expert Racing mountain bike (photo attached of it now, post refurb) mechanically refurbished with my local specialist and I am looking to put it up for sale but, and I always hate being this person, I genuinely have no idea what to advertise it for in terms of if it's a saught after classic or just another old bike.
I am its first and only owner, buying new from Hargreaves Cycles in Millbrook Road Southampton in I think 2003. The bike is running on a mixture of original parts or anything that has needed to be replaced in its 22 year life has been replaced with similar or OEM parts. It's had a riser bar and front hope disc brake fitted (v.brakes on the back as standard) but that's it for the upgrades.
Bike has just had a full service and mechanical refurbish including correct new chain, new cassette, pair of new OEM equivalent MTB tyres, new bottom bracket, new seat post clamp, new rear brake cable, two new inner tubes and two new jockey wheels. On top of that the bike was stripped and cleaned, fully lubricated, derailers adjusted, rapid fire shifters stripped serviced and v.brakes serviced. The bike is still on it's original Rock Shox Judy TT front suspension which rebounds and works fine.
The paint work on the bike is the beautiful anodized mid blue but it is chipped in a few localised places, but nothing terrible.
I will advertise the bike for sale here but it would be really good to get some people's experience on what they think would be the correct price to advertise it for. Having searched forums, ebay, Gumtree and anything else I can think of there wasn't another one of these for sale so very hard to judge price.
It would be good if it could go to a suitably caring home. The bike hasn't been ridden in anger for around 13 years and has been dry stored and covered in my garage. Suspension works as it should and after the refurbishment the bike has been test ridden and is now good to use.
Many thanks.
