Bike question, Pushbike, please dont move to Motorbike forum

[wildoliver]

I bought a really nice frame on the weekend, Its a Marin Hawkhill, All alloy, and extremely light, I bought it with the intention of making a lightweight road bike (yes I know its a mountain bike) basically before I go ahead, i've been told its actually a very good frame and is maybe worth selling and buying a road frame/bike with the proceeds?

Is it worth anything? and where's the best place to sell it? Its laquered alloy, but doesn't have front forks, but does have the rear mech bracket fitted and a BB. Oh and it weighs about as much as a packet of crisps!

[Graham@Reading]

How about the Bicycle forum?

[Andy Oh]

Why don't you try that well known auction site....it will probably be your best place to sell the frame

[djm101]

So you bought the frame at the weekend, and now two days later you're wondering whether to sell it?

Did you do any research at all before buying?

All I'd do is get a set of road wheels for it, that way you can run it on the road and convert back to mountain bike in a jiffy.

[adrian w]

Just go to www.chainreactioncycles.com get the rest of the bits and turn it into a bike. Nowdays it's not hard to build a sub 9 kilo mountain bike.

[nickd01]

It's not that great a frame I'm afraid. I'd convert it, the hassle of re-selling it on e.t.c probably isn't worth it. Road bikes are slightly more expensive to buy than MTB frames so stick with what you've got and put some 1" slicks on it.

[Mr E]

Erm, I thought the HawkHill was pretty much towards the bottom/middle of the Marin range.

A nice bike and a good frame to be sure, but I can't imagine it's worth a lot.

[wildoliver]

Cheers for the advice, exactly what I needed!

Trust me for what I paid it was still a bargain!

[Roman]

I think I would sell it & put the proceeds towards buying a complete ready built roadbike because:

A Though a good light frame it is not a roadbike frame so is not suitable for 700c wheels & difficult to get position right for drop bars. OK if you want to build up a flat bar'd hybrid though.

building a bike from components is more expensive than buying a complete machine at the lower to mid range price points.

[wildoliver]

well what realistically would i get for the frame?

[Roman]

£60-£100?

[wildoliver]

Hmmm, I'd take £75 for it, or do I build it in to a mountain bike and use it?

[Roman]

If you want a hybrid or mtb build it up but it will cost you around another £300 if you buy all the other reasonably priced parts new.

[wildoliver]

Well i'm not far off now, off tomorrow to collect a set of wheels, a raleigh frame to sell, pair of rock shoxs Judy's, set of magura H33s (what are these like?) and a load of other bits.

[dubbs]

Magura is a good name - I know their brakes are great.

You won't go wrong with Judy's either - good shocks to be getting on with.

I'd like some Fox Vanilla's if you find any appearing from the bike parts fairy you seem to have captured :-)