Dood. When I lived in Bland Diego about 5 years ago, I had a grand old time finding bikes at the swap meets. Kobey and Spring Valley were my favorites. I flipped about 30-40 bikes when I lived there. Made a profit on most of it. (Though I lost a whole lot of time, so I really lost money in an eye of an economist) Still it was fun going to those weekend swap meets and finding reynolds 531 frame bikes for $70 in good condition. Sick! Dood. Sick! This is one of the things I miss about Bland Diego, that and drinking beer at the Bland Diego Velodrome. Bland Diego is a good way of describing San Diego. I lived there for 5 years and got bored rather quickly. You should move to Bay Area, we got bike stealing Trannies here as noted in the Northern California Forum. Much more exciting. Super overpriced bikes on CL though.

If you can't find used bikes in SD, you are not looking hard enough. Well, that was the case 2 years ago when I left.

I don't flip anymore. Too time consuming. Learned my lesson in SD. Rather ride or gab on BF.

I had a friend who bought bikes exclusively at garage sales. I remember he bought a 80s Pinarello with full Campy AND Phil Wood hub wheels for $40. You can get absolutely the best bargains this way, but again. how much time you got to waste?