19.2lb Large S-WORKS hardtail - a detested XC bike $1800

[mfennell]

Cut/paste from an earlier thread. Offering it at the lower bound of Jason's pricing thoughts AFTER I had the rear wheel rebuilt.

'11 SWORKS frame. The stiff one. They softened it up in '12 IIRC. I built it up, then replaced everything over the years.
Valor Pro wheels ('18, I think)
11sp XX1
Hope H2 brakes
Fox stepcast 32 ('19?)
19.2lbs w/o pedals (time-honored bathroom scale method)
Rear wheel just rebuilt by Shrewsbury Bicycles with proper spokes (1.8 straight, I think - I haven't checked)

Bad:
Rear wheel was starting to break spokes - a rebuild would be smart
Front wheel dish is off by 5mm (centerlock disc, boost axle)
Rear brake caliper has a piston not retracting properly but it's still fully rideable




The price/performance ratio on this bike is off the charts. Also, it's green. I hate to sell it but I haven't ridden it in 10 months. I'm trying to break my habit of keeping things forever because I might want to use it.

I just remembered: this frame was raced at Leadville. Provenance!

 

[thegock]

Cut/paste from an earlier thread. Offering it at the lower bound of Jason's pricing thoughts AFTER I had the rear wheel rebuilt.

'11 SWORKS frame. The stiff one. They softened it up in '12 IIRC. I built it up, then replaced everything over the years.
Valor Pro wheels ('18, I think)
11sp XX1
Hope H2 brakes
Fox stepcast 32 ('19?)
19.2lbs w/o pedals (time-honored bathroom scale method)
Rear wheel just rebuilt by Shrewsbury Bicycles with proper spokes (1.8 straight, I think - I haven't checked)

Bad:
Rear wheel was starting to break spokes - a rebuild would be smart
Front wheel dish is off by 5mm (centerlock disc, boost axle)
Rear brake caliper has a piston not retracting properly but it's still fully rideable

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The price/performance ratio on this bike is off the charts. Also, it's green. I hate to sell it but I haven't ridden it in 10 months. I'm trying to break my habit of keeping things forever because I might want to use it.

I just remembered: this frame was raced at Leadville. Provenance!

TITE WHIP

did it get a belt buckle?

 

[ChrisG]

I'm confused by "detested".

Will your competitors "detest your blazing speed on this phenomenally light race weapon"?

Or is it, "I detest that I have to sell this bike, but there are too many cool cars in my garage, and not enough room for this bike"?

I can attest to the general provenance of this bike.

 

[stb222]

Wow, pretty amazing price for what it is

 

[stb222]

@Pearl

 

[Pearl]

i'm over here shopping for baggies

 

[mfennell]

TITE WHIP

did it get a belt buckle?

LOL. He finished but had stomach issues near the end. His 8:45 pace became 9:50.

 

[mfennell]

I'm confused by "detested".

I'm just paying homage to @jimvreeland and "XC is dead".

 

[thegock]

LOL. He finished but had stomach issues near the end. His 8:45 pace became 9:50.

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Bummy. A good friend of mine, and great rider, B1G Mike, wound up in the hospital in a race we won 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 on. No buckle.

 

[Dave Taylor]

This bike also finished 2nd several times at the Monmouth county world championship

 

[mfennell]

This bike also finished 2nd several times at the Monmouth county world championship

And that was before the sweet fork. What would have happened with it?

Narrator: "Second."

 

[ChrisG]

“On the podium” always sounds good.

 

[MMuller]

Ah the good old Tatum race. You probably whizzed by me several times.

 

[thegock]

Great fork.

 

[mfennell]

SOLD! For more than I offered you guys!

I put it on Zuckerbook Marketplace on Tuesday and a guy at a shop in Long Island saw it and told one of his customers to check it out because he had nothing to sell him. Turned out the guy's aunt lives in Highlands, about a mile from Hartshorne (which he had never heard of because he's a newbie - with a 19lb XC race bike).