so I got a lead on a Raleigh it's full suspension and we have not yet flipped a full suspension bike
this one's kind of old kind of outdated but it has hydraulic disc brakes it has Rockshox suspension
and all the parts are fairly good so the fact that it's old might be a good thing because we
might be able to get this for a really good deal so let's go stare at it and make sure the shifters
work and there's no tar on the frame nobody any skidding contests with it let's go get it
so it's a good bike besides a chain it just needs a tune-up and it doesn't need any parts
he's willing to do it for 200. I would like to pay less but I think this is a worthwhile dude
I think we should go ahead and do it and see where this takes us
so I got a chance to really look over this bike and it's fairly high end at least in
terms of what's on it it's only 29 pounds which is really light that's lighter than my trail bike
the tires have plenty of meat on them and all around you can see that the previous owner was
pretty concerned with what they put on the bike but it's not perfect it definitely
needs some work the brakes don't really work they probably need a bleed these are definitely
some weird grips they put on here the linkage is really ugly there's not much we can do about that
I also discovered that the shifters and brakes are all built into the same lever
that's going to present a problem if we want to upgrade the drivetrain because it means we
would also need to upgrade the brakes that could get very expensive otherwise the bike
just needs a really good cleaning so let's get it over to the wash station and dig in
so there are a bunch of black parts on the bike like these cranks that have lots of visible
scratches and instead of repainting them we could just touch it up with a sharpie to make it not
look as visible but actually the better thing to do would be to use this black touch-up paint
it looks a lot more black than a sharpie does and it's automotive grade so it's going to hold
up really well this isn't going to make it look perfect but it is going to make it stand out less
and I think it can save us a lot of time as opposed to repainting the cranks completely
while the paint is drying there's actually repair we need to do the derailleur
the little gears on the derailleur are called jockey wheels and you can see how this one is
all worn down here it is compared to a brand new jockey wheel which I happen to have two of this is
gonna make the derailleur run like new and all I have to do is unscrew the old ones and screw the
new ones on and we are done so originally I was just going to break down the linkage and clean
everything but upon closer inspection quite a bit of this is janked as you can see this little nylon
washer is completely crushed we can probably find that at the hardware store but the bearings we're
not going to be able to as you can see when we rotate this one it doesn't rotate smoothly and so
the solution for that is we have to buy new ones now there are three different types of bearing
cartridges in this and we're going to have to measure all of them so sometimes you can just read
the writing on the bearing and order new ones but if you have a caliper measure the inside diameter
the outside diameter and then the thickness of it and those three measurements are going to be what
bearing you need so if you type in 8 by 16 by 5 you're going to find a whole bunch of bearings
they're all pretty much the same thing order the one you can get the quickest and that's
what we're doing these are not expensive you can get a digital caliper on amazon for like 10 bucks
one of the things that stuck out to me about this bike is how messy everything
up at the fork looks and part of that are these zip ties but there's also the v-brake
mounts which are completely unnecessary these posts are made to mount an older type of brake
and this bike has disc brakes so we can just unscrew them and fill them in with some other bolt
but as I'm getting into it here it looks like this front brake hose is in pretty bad
shape to replace it we need to of course remove the old hose measure up a new one
cut it to size and then install new hardware onto the ends the hardware is made up of barbs and
olives the barb is the interface between the lever or the caliper of the brakes and the olive kind of
seals it up the olives just kind of slide on and the barbs get pressed in with this special tool
now if you don't have one of these tools some hose kits come with these little plastic clamps
to be honest I don't really know what they're for but it looks like you could use them to clamp the
hose in place and then hammer the barb in yourself with a hammer it's kind of handy once you have the
new hose installed of course you need to fill the system back up with brake fluid which in this case
is mineral oil or baby oil seems to work okay we'll push it up through the bottom with a
syringe and once we know all the bubbles are out the brakes should work like new
and without those v-brake mounts in the way we can fashion a new clamp to get rid of those old
janky zip ties I certainly feel better with that new brake hose I'm gonna take apart the cockpit
here and see if we can make it look a little bit better there are bmx grips on this thing
yeah that's what they did there was it's an animal bmx grip with a flange and they cut the flange off
so I have these grips they're not anything special but at the same time they're not
bmx grips with the flanges cut off they look a little bit more official
the brake lever you push the brake lever down to shift so this is a mountain bike with drifters
so is the bricked or a real word I did not make this up brifter is a real word that people use to
describe brakes that have shifters built into them so check this out let's say you're going like hard
in the paint right right and you're like oh snap hit the turn instead of breaking you downshift
yeah there's lots of different reasons why they probably don't do this anymore
so I don't know how many times we can go through the same things but we are truing this wheel we're
going to make it straight by using tension on the spokes yeah it looks like we opened
up a little can of worms here hopefully we have a spoke nipple that will fit this
yeah this nipple fits um yeah I'm definitely gonna replace this nipple as well
yeah see this thing is just totally destroyed
I can't even turn it I'm just trying to get it off of the bike that's no good
so we replaced like 85 spoke nipples every time one spoke pops another one does and then you just
mar up the nipples and yeah all is well that ends well let's get this back on the bike
and actually put it back together so it's saturday and a beautiful thing just arrived
all of our bearings but because it's Saturday I'm on little girl duty here you want a baby biscuit
here Alexa play Cocomelon here's some music by Cocomelon
this bearing press is really handy it just really evenly
presses the bearing in you just know 100 you're doing it right
okay so now I just have to remember how this goes back together there
are a lot of little bushings and things that we got to get right
hi bubby! that's mommy to the rescue and we can actually make this look like a bike now
now to get this bike ready for listening I'm going to put a set of egg beaters on it and I'm going
to offer them for an additional price people who ride xc usually have pedals that they like
so these are going to be optional if they have a set of pedals that they would rather use
so last few finishing touches and I think we're done we clean this bike up from top to bottom
we fixed some issues with the wheels replaced all the linkage bearings
it even got to work with a set of vintage mountain bike brifters we gave it a tune-up
up and down and now there's only one thing left to do before we list it stare at it
okay so this is an older bike but it's full suspension it's very capable and these days
something like this is gonna be hard to come by and so i've priced it at 500 I think that's
fair I wrote for sale is a Raleigh full suspension cross-country mountain bike sized large if you
are between five eight and six feet this should work this is an older 26 inch XC bike which was
really well equipped for its day it is lighter than most of today's trail bikes and has been
fully tuned up with a new chain grips linkage bearings and front bracos the bike features
Rockshox air suspension in the front and rear which are adjustable to your weight front and
rear Shimano hydraulic disc brakes work like new and have been recently serviced the Deore XT
drivetrain shifts beautifully for a beginner this will be a really capable xc bike for the price
make me an offer and let's find it a great home so let's publish this listing and see what we get
okay it's monday morning and we've gotten two strong offers neither person's haggling they're
just like I want the bike so I'm gonna meet somebody at 10:15 and if that falls through I can
drive an hour to try and meet the other person so I think we're going to sell this bike today
yeah I'm new to riding so the one thing I would tell you about this bike is it's got brifters
so the brakes and shifters are all built into one so that was easy he was like yeah
my buddies told me find a mountain bike try to get something full suspension and
I haven't been able to find anything at this price so let's go home and i'll give you the breakdown
so we didn't get as good of a deal on this bike as I had originally thought because
we had to replace all the linkage bearings we had to replace the front brake hose we had to work on
the wheels these are not repairs that an average tinker is going to want to do and so I think 500
was a good price for what he got and so what was the breakdown well those linkage bearings cost us
about 15 bucks and we ended up with like literally 30 extra bearings that we can use on future builds
the chain cost us 16 grips cost us seven and the brake hose cost us ten there were also
miscellaneous valve caps and hardware and bushings and those cost us about five the new jockey wheels
were 15 and the bottle cage was seven we ended up spending a total of 75 dollars in materials
and we bought the bike for 200. it sold for full asking price at 500 for a profit of 225 dollars
that is the most profit we've made by far and I think it'll be very worthwhile for anybody to
do what we just did to this bike I had multiple offers on that and not one person was trying to
haggle me they were all very willing to pay 500 for it and that's because you can't find a lot of
decent full suspension bikes for that price so I hope you enjoyed this episode of flip bike I
hope you learned something if you want to watch more of these episodes I left a playlist below
with all the other bikes we've sold thanks for riding with me today and i'll see you next time
it's kind of like an sti shifter on your gravel bike your road bike with your brake lever and your
shifters in the same situation it is a little bit like a road bike shifter where you have a brifter
what is that a brifter where it's a brake and a shifter so
this is a so this is a mountain bike with brifters so is a brick or a real word it's
I didn't just make it up I did not make this up for sure I'm positive it's a it's a brifter yeah