So, I'm browsing the old
Facebook marketplace and I found a Kona Hoss. It's a hard
tail. Modernish geometry, 250 bucks. I think it's worth it
because it has brand-new tires on it but let me go take a look
at it and see if I can get it for a little less. This could
be a really good flip bike. There we go. Thank you. Appreciate it. We ended up getting this bike
for only 200 bucks. When I got there, neither the brakes were
working. We don't know what's wrong with them. They could
just need a flush and refill but in any case, I think this
bike is very much worth 200 bucks because brand new, you
can't get anything for that these days. The tires are
practically new. They still have a little hairs on them. All around that has pretty good components, great wheels, great
fork, even the drivetrain doesn't really have anything
wrong with it. Another thing we've got going for us is that
Kona is kinda a cool bike. The brand has held a lot of value
even today but all is not perfect. We're gonna have to do
something about the brakes, the pedals are in shambles, and I
would like to modernize the drivetrain just a little bit. We can make this bike a lot better than it is without
spending big money on it. And for somebody looking for a
starter hard tail, this might be the perfect bike. Let's take
it apart and get it over to the wash station. I don't know what all this
stuff down here is. It's like literally tar that got kicked
up from the road. will scrubbing it do anything? So, I'm gonna grab a tire lever. Elbow grease alone
doesn't seem to be doing the trick. So the good news is the
fork has this protective film over the labels and you pull it
off and they look brand new. The bad news is the frame. I
just thought it was dirty but really there's all this tar
stuff on it. It looks really bad and I don't have a plan. turns out Kevin's got a little bit of experience with paint
work. He's having me wet sand it and the stuff is coming off
and it's looking good. So, once we're done with this, we'll see
how bad the paint looks and decide if there's something
else we have to do but it's coming off. Kevin picked up an automotive
grade clear coat. We're gonna scuff up the paint, bring the
sheen back to the finish. It's not gonna look like new but it
is gonna look better. Alright, definitely looks
better than it did when it's covered in tar. So, let's go
work on the brakes and see if we can get those working while
this is drying. Well, one thing's for sure, these brakes
do not work. I've got a whole bunch of bleed fittings right
here. Let's get to it. These are bone dry and so we
really wanna flush them out and make sure they're clean and
then fill em up. I've got a fitting for the bottom. Oh
yeah, this one. Oh. This is the messiest bleed job I've ever
done. Now, we'll go outside and wash this off. So now that
we've done all that messy stuff. Everywhere where that
corrosive brake fluid has sort of eaten away paint and made
bolts all rusty, we can just clean it up. So, our clear coat dried
overnight and it looks good. Looks really good. Nice satin
clear coat. None of that garbage that was on the frame
is there. Not perfect but let's just say I'm happy with it. We
are changing to a shorter stem. This actually came off the GT. Wow. No rubbing. Everything is
perfect. We'll need to line up this
rotor That's it. This is a nice, big,
ten-speed cassette. Oh, Sram X7. This ain't a bad
derailleur. It's a forty tooth So, this will work as a one-by
on a twenty-six-inch bike. These are pretty nice hubs. So,
this is the original crankset. Had these three rings on it. We're gonna change it out for this one single speed chain
ring. I feel like with Oscar here,
I'm teaching my son how to work on a bike and someday, he'll
know how to use all these tools from being on the bench,
watching from four centimeters away. Alright, we've done this once
or twice. I cleaned up these grips really good. Gonna reuse
them. There's nothing wrong with them. That's gonna save us
a buck or two. So, for what it's worth just to freshen up
the look of the bike, I'm gonna install these bolt-on skewers. They technically decrease the weight. They can't get caught
on things and they make the bike look a little bit more
streamlined. A lot of this is about cosmetics. One of the
last things we have to do is install pedals and the ones
that were on it are not going to do. So, I have these red
ones and they match some of the accents on the bike but this
bike is subtle something a little more serious. So, Kevin
installed new pedals on his bike and his old ones were shot
or so he said, he said these are no good anymore. That very
well might be the case but I'm willing to bet it is not. These
have never been opened before. I can see the factory thread
locker on the screws. Ooh. Oh yeah. Bone dry. Uh any grease
is certainly better than none. So on these pedals, there's a
little screw that goes in the end right here. When you force
the axis in, the extra grease will come out of the end of the
pedal. So, I'm just gonna put nice big glob of grease in
here. And then we're gonna kinda spin the axis in there. It's just extruding grease out of the end of the pedal there. Okay, now listen to this pedal. You hear that? Neither do I. So, we got these cleaned up
now. Now, I have to get all these pins out. Now, most of
them are mashed up. I'm gonna have to take a plier and twist
them out by force. I put tape over any spot that had some
pattern on it. The rest, we're just gonna paint flat black. Some really high-quality paint with hardener. I knew this would look better
but if you just glance at them, they look like brand-new Stamp
pedals. I mean, this is insane. Brand-new pins, bushings work
just like new. This is gonna add real value to this bike and
it didn't cost us anything. Kevin was ready to throw these
away and I was like, dude, let me see if I can fix those. Let's see what they look like on the bike. Okay. So, I'm looking at the bike and
this there's nothing wrong with the seat. It's a perfectly good
seat but I think I have one that suits the bike better. So,
I'm gonna swap it. I know I'm obsessing over looks a lot but
that's what sells it. I think this might be the one where we
can claim some degree of success but we haven't listed
it yet and haven't got any inquiries yet. And we haven't
stared at it yet. So we just listed the bike. Let
me read you the listing. This Kona Hartail is medium sized
and perfect for riders between five, six, and five ten. The
bike is in perfect working order and has been thoroughly
tuned up from the hydraulic disc brakes to the cables to
the drivetrain and chain. The tires are fairly new as well. From its original state, this bike has received numerous
tasteful upgrades including a more modern 1X drivetrain
and Crankbrothers Stamp7 pedals. Make me an offer and
let's find it a home. I priced it at 450 and I think that's a
fair price. I'm gonna really try to get full ask but it
needs to sell. So, let's see what we get for it. Alright. So, just woke up and checked the messages. I have like seven
offers on this thing. So, first person to actually meet up and
pay the money gets it. And all these full price offers are
making me think I might have listed it for too little. I
literally organized for three showings of the bike and I told
each one of them, look, whenever the bike sells, it
sells, be honest and let them know that. Now, I'm meeting up
with somebody at 915 to sell the bike. And if that falls
through, I have other people that are like, thanks, let me
know. So, we sold the Kona for full
ask, 450 bucks and you know what? I think we could have
gotten more for it. I had to message a whole bunch of people
back and say, sorry, the bike's sold. But did we make any money
on it? Here's the breakdown. So, first of all, we swapped
out certain parts on the bike like the stem and the drive
train and in certain cases, we definitely went with a better
part and so, I tried to be fair about how I value those. We
swapped the drivetrain from a nine speed to a ten speed with
a bigger cassette. I value that at thirty-five dollars. The
chain ring cost us thirteen dollars. The bolt on skewers
cost us ten. We swapped out the perfectly good saddle for a
slightly newer and better one so I value that at five
dollars. We used a lot of supplies. Cables, paint, pedal
pins, sandpaper, that I'm gonna value at twenty dollars. The
new pedals were very very good but they were about to be
thrown away. But those were expensive brand new so I have
to put some kind of value on it let's say $20 after all they
were gonna go in the trash. So overall, we put $103 into a
bike that we spent $200 on. We sold it for 450 and so we made
$147 profit. That's better than we've ever done so far and I
think he got a really good deal on this bike. That bike had
great bearings all around, double wall rims, and
indestructible coil fork. So, everybody won here and we have
a whole bunch of parts to put back in the bin. If you like
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