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Old 09-13-11 | 09:25 PM
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From: Rhode Island (an obscure suburb of Connecticut)

Bikes: one of each

Oh, I forgot, Fairhaven Massachussetts has Big Trash Day once a year. That's how I got into vintage bikes. I thought I'd like an old bike to fix up and ride around and there were 3 on every street. I walked around and decided that Raleigh 3 speeds came in a nice shade of green and limited myself to green Raleigh 3 speeds. Then I found Sheldon Brown and wished I'd taken all the Raleigh 3 speeds.

Cody and Tobin's over in New Bedford is nice, too. I guess any steel recycling place can be fun. They sell them by the pound. I saw a Schwinn Super Sport there and passed it up thinking it was just some Varsity varient (really Schwinn's marketing problem all along). I got home and googled it and found this forum. It was gone by the time I got back but I still have the Brooks saddle that I took off of it. They sold me that Brooks by the pound along with a crapped out Phillips 3 speed that I parted out.
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