I thought I had found the mother load of bike deals yesterday. I was passing through Olney, Illinois yesterday on business and I found the distribution warehouse for GT, Schwinn, Mongoose & Pacific bikes. This thing was huge. Like the warehouse in Indiana Jones, there were hundreds of thousands of bikes in this place as far as you could see.

Attached to the side of this place was an "OUTLET STORE" I went in and there was a big room full of bikes. I was seeing FS GT bikes that I know I had seen in the $1500-$2500 range for $700-$900. There were $200 bikes everywhere. But the closer I looked, there just was something not right about these bikes. When I asked, the lady working there said that these were bikes that were returned to GT from dealers. Then I started seeing the problems. Bent shifters, seat posts that bent, square wheels, you name it. This was like the island of misfit toys