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11-27-2018, 09:46 AM
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What to do with older Vamoots that's got a ding
So I've had this bike in the house since 2006 ish, it's a 01 or 02 I bought lightly used. In 08 I got hit by a car on it and the rear wheel was taco'd, fork wrecked and the left seat stay has a pretty nice ding in it. I took it down to the frame and it hung for a few years. Since then I rebuilt it and first used it on the trainer and then after realizing the bike was still straight I rode it for maybe 8k miles before retiring it for the 2014 Vamoots I now have.
Come 2019 I'm going to have to trim my bike stable down to about 2 from the 8 or so I have now. So I have this Vamoots that I'm never going to ride but have very mixed feelings about how I get rid of it. I don't feel it's worth fixing for me and Moots actually told me to just ride it as they didn't want to deal with it. Is something like this worth anything? Should I cut it up and permanently retire it? Looking to the collective wisdom of the forum for advice on this one! 
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11-27-2018, 09:47 AM
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so, what size is it?
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11-27-2018, 09:49 AM
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If you don’t want to ride it I would suggest some wall art! Sounds like it had good memories. Wish I had saved an old bike that had a similar past.
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11-27-2018, 09:53 AM
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It's a 57.5 from back in the day.
I'd wall art it but we're going to be moving across the country and are selling nearly everything we can't fit in our RV. The current plan it to stay in that until we decide if we want to buy or whatever.
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11-27-2018, 09:58 AM
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You could sell it and you’ll get SOMETHING for it but not much.
If you don’t absolutely need the money I’d either A) turn it into a dedicated winter/ errand bike B) donate it to a local up and coming racer and tell them to watch that ding!
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11-27-2018, 09:58 AM
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no need for wall art.
moots told you to ride it, and you've put 8000 "validation" miles on that diagnosis, so just sell it for a reduced figure with that full disclosure. it'll sell. moots are awesome.
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#8
11-27-2018, 10:27 AM
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curious to see how bad the ding is. did Moots inspect it personally before telling you it's good to go, or they could tell from pictures?
Angry is right though, you've already verified that it's ride-able/safe. you may not get the price you want out of it; but if you're looking to cut back, sacrifices must be made. even if someone's afraid of the ding, would make a baller trainer bike.
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11-27-2018, 10:35 AM
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No kind of mid-ride failure is good, but I'd take a seat stay failure over just about anything else. JUST MY OPINION.
You already know that the safest answer is to not ride a frame that you aren't sure about. Given that Moots told you to ride it, I bet that it'll be fine.
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11-27-2018, 11:14 AM
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11-27-2018, 12:12 PM
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This forum is the best!!!
Thanks for all the input, I'll dig it out and snap some pictures. After I built it back up and rode it all I kept thinking was how great of a bike it still was with that silky smooth ride. It'd make a great cheap ti bike to try out the moots magic knowing up front it'd been through some stuff.
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