oklahomajewel wrote:Hey .... I'm gonna call a couple of people later today, tomorrow about bikes they have for sale. Road bikes, not mountain bike.
One is a Free Spirit 10 speed bike, from the 80s . the person doesn't know for sure, but I searched google and find that Free Spirit is a bike sold by Sears and looks to be good. Do any of you know anything about Free Spirit?
And one mention of a Free Spirit bike from the 80s mentioned that it had Shimano gears. I've heard that on any bike, if it has Shimano gears or parts , then that's a good thing to look for.
How do I know if it's Shimano parts or not?? Is there a marking or a 'look'?
THANKS Y'ALL !!!!
as has been said.. Shimano makes all quality levels of parts. Most any lower end bike today will have shimano parts, on it. In better quality bikes
you have choices, there are other brands of components available, the other choices are also good.
I don't think that free spirit would be any faster than your bike, if you put faster tires on your bike. I thought you were going to bring your bike in to a shop to get looked at?
around here you can get bikes like that free spirit on a lawn sale very inexpensively.
I would go to a shop and see what they have that is used. We don't do much with used stuff like you are looking for, but a shop I used to work at would have all kinds of stuff. better than that for not a lot more.