I'm not one to troll through yard sales for weeks on end, looking for a good deal on an old bike. Or prowl the Goodwill stores every day, hoping for a strike. My time is more valuable to me. This is why I love eBay. In minutes, I've got thousands of bikes to choose from, courtesy of hard-working flippers all over the globe. And every once in a while, there's worth looking at on the local CL. Some of the bikes are outrageously priced, so I watch them like a train wreck to see if anyone bites. Others have terrible pics or sketchy descriptions. Some are drop-dead gorgeous and have swarms of bidders. Others pique my interest and I throw out a bid; like this one:



I didn't know squat about it and apparently nobody else did either as I got for what I considered a low offer.

I don't know or care what the seller paid for the frame; he made it available for me to buy, something that would have been impossible before eBay.