Bicycle choices for TK

[twisteroo]

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Hey Twitch, look what I have in the basement for a winter project!!!

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Is that the bike that was for $200? How much did you steal it for? What kind of shape is it in?

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I AM 20 POINTS AWAY FROM GETTING THAT BIKE!

[twisteroo]

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Yep, that was the $200 bike, I gave him $200. Some skater punk, I tried to lowball him but he held steady and the thing is in good shape. I just need some new bars, new cables, new brakes, a new stem, maybe a bottom bracket, swap some tires around and go beat the hell out of it on the ski slopes this spring. It has a carbon swing arm and is all shimano deore stuff, it was like $2,300 back in 1998.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Yeah, you got a deal. I looked at the Bikepedia page when you showed it to me.

No one has deals like that here so far. Only that guy with the 100 bikes for $100 and when you look, he wants more when you inquire about one or the other.

[twisteroo]

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This guy has this thing set up wrong, it's set up to ride on the street and he has the brakes backwards.
I mean the left brake lever controls the back and the right the front, or something.....whatever it is its backwards from every other bicycle and motorcycle on the planet. It too me a minute to figure out what was wrong.

I will be sure to take a thousand pictures as I get to working on it.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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You got lucky! You found a dumbass who had $2300 to spend on a bike and had no clue what he was doing. He probably tried a thousand times to get it right and gave up thinking the thing was busted and gave it to you on the cheap.

Either that or he's severely messed up from drugs and couldn't function any other way on it!

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I WON THE BIKE! I WON THE BIKE!

Now to figure what size I need. I've no clue how to do that online.

This is the ladies style:
http://www.bikepedia.com/QuickBike/BikeSpecsFB.aspx?Year=2010&Brand=Fuji&Model=Nevada%204.0%20(Women's)&Type=bike

And this is the mens. Matt won a bike too!
http://www.bikepedia.com/QuickBike/BikeSpecsFB.aspx?Year=2010&Brand=Fuji&Model=Nevada%204.0%20(Men's)&Type=bike

[twisteroo]

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Those are good looking bikes Twitch.
The best thing I can tell you is to try to find a shop that sells them and check them out for size. Or......StandOver height. Match them up somewhere like this, http://2010.fujibikes.com/Mountain/Perfo...a-4-0.aspx
Check out the frame geometry and as far as I know the standover height is the most important.
This is the height of the cross tube from the ground, you you have to be able to comfortably be able to stand over that height. Got it? Good!
Unless you have some freaky long monkey arms, or terribly short midget arms or some other odd deformed, mismatched, extra short, or freakishly long arms or legs, I would think the standover height would be the most important, it has always worked for my anyway.

I bought my touring bike off e-bay, just going by frame size and standover height, and a couple crappy pictures.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I'm evenly proportioned thankyouverymuch!

28" inseam if that is any help.

I'll pop into the bike shop sometime this weekend with a pic from Bikepedia and see what they have to say. I will also want them to stick the speed shifters on there and talk about those disk brakes I fell in love with.