On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:34:03 -0600, Tom Sherman
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>Mike Jacoubowsky/Chain Reaction Bicycles wrote:
>
>> Bandwith is cheap, sorry. Look for a decent used bike. You could probably
>> find one for nearly free at a garage sale or thrift shop that would be far
>> better than the Huffy or Schwinn from a department store. If you have the
>> skills to properly assemble a bike, you can probably easily deal with a used
>> bike, and recognize a real gem that's there for the taking.
>
>I know someone who purchased a lugged steel frame Trek with near perfect
>paint for $10 at a yard sale.
A few months ago, I grabbed a group of five bikes for the total sum of
about $60 at the city auction; the lot included a Miyata Elevation
1000 that needed just a chain and cassette replaced due to wear. Of
the other four, two were absolute scrap. Those two were a mid-60s
drop-frame Schwinn tourer with tires rotted off, and a badly
ethno-engineered Huffy with a 24" rear wheel and a tireless EA3 front
wheel on a 559-wheel frame with a complete lack of brakes, shifters
and seat. The remaining two were reasonably servicable
department-store-level bikes in almost immediately useful condition; a
Pacific mtb with a missing dust guard on one front wheel bearing, and
a Roadmaster Mt Fury (alas, in the 24" size) with the most creatively
obliterated set of brake calipers I have ever seen. The front
caliper's arms were devoid of pads and had been twisted in between the
fork legs (I should mention that the fork had been turned around
backwards) as though the brakes had been suddenly applied while the
bike was being towed at high speeds with an overload aboard. Given
the presence of a trick-bike footpeg on the rear axle, that may be
exactly what was being done. There was also an impressive amount of
chain slap damage to the chainstay paint. Despite the apparent abuse,
however, with the substitution of some less twisted calipers from Le
Carton Du Junque, it became a useful bike which presently awaits a
suitable rider.
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