a lot of good advice on this thread why you should not not buy a walmart bike or any other bike from a department store. i you are on a bugdet i can not make any suggestion besides waiting until sept. or oct. to buy a bike because the quality will be so abysmal it will end up costing you more. i suffered through most of the 1970s with one bike because that is all i could afford & it had to be a touring bike. i currently own 1 touring bike, 2 sport touring bikes, 2 racing bikes & a greenspeed recumbent tricycle. my oldest is a 1975 raleigh super course mark 2. a woman came to visit for the summer in 1975 & i bought a super course for her to use but i did not sell when she left because i found having a demo which fit most of my female friends was a very effective selling tool. perhaps you have a friend who could friend you could lend up a bike. when i totaled my jaguar in dec 1979 i did borrow a bike for 2 months in the spring. attilio picked a nice nishiki at the salvation army, but salvation army does not carry a regular stock, but you can go look. attilio did you my super course for several months, he bought his son a kmart bike (another department store) & i am an above average bike mechanic & i could not get the sun race rear derailleur to work properly. today i could not afford so many bikes & the tricycle cost $6000!!!, i had never spent more than $3000 for my klein team super.