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Originally Posted by folder fanatic
The "disposable" bike is a myth. Either you go ahead and buy the present cheap department store questionable bike or you pay the rising price for a good used one from the 1960s & 1970s or around several hundred dollars to around 1000 dollars for a nice new one. To look at Craigslist & Ebay gives one the impression that people no longer give away anything of value like they did when I was little-i.e. informal neighborhood or family support. They can make some hard cash for most anything now.
Today, bikes are more easily tossed out, if Lil' Johnny wants a first bike, Lil' Johnny's parents can go down to Wally World and get him a 16 inch wheeler for less than than 50 dollars. Looking at a 1962 ad for a Schwinn 16 inch for 30 dollars( 250 dollars today), parents back then would be more apt to hang on to it, plus there would also be more persons willing to take it as a donation than today.
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