To buy or not to buy?

[grantoury]

Can you ever have enough?

Only if you decide it is enough, is my experience.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Only if you decide it is enough, is my experience.

I decided I had enough, look how well that's going

 

[Black_puma]

Just went to have a look at the Karakoram but decided not to buy as the spec and condition was below what I was hoping for. It had a nasty dint in the non driveside chainstay.
Overall the bike would cost me a lot more to get it up to spec. :-/

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Just went to have a look at the Karakoram but decided not to buy as the spec and condition was below what I was hoping for. It had a nasty dint in the non driveside chainstay.
Overall the bike would cost me a lot more to get it up to spec. :-/

Dents are a pet hate of mine.

 

[Black_puma]

Dents are a pet hate of mine.

Same here, that wasn't shown in the photo, unfortunately.

 

[PhillB]

Ah, that's a shame. Glad you went to have a look - it looked in good condition in the photo!

 

[oligali]

Just went to have a look at the Karakoram but decided not to buy as the spec and condition was below what I was hoping for. It had a nasty dint in the non driveside chainstay.
Overall the bike would cost me a lot more to get it up to spec. :-/

Now that´s a disappointment. One would expect a decent seller (shop?) to show such nasty stuff in the pictures, or at least to mention it in the writing...
Better luck next time

 

[Black_puma]

Now that´s a disappointment. One would expect a decent seller (shop?) to show such nasty stuff in the pictures, or at least to mention it in the writing...
Better luck next time

sadly, the drivetrain and brakes fitted were well below what you might expect for a Karakoram, even if the frame was without that damage I would probably still not have bought as I wasn't that desperate anyway.
That Karakoram deserved so much better!