"Sure there is - don't be so PC"

For this bike, yeah, there is. I'm ticked it was in the Fan near VCU, on Southside it would have been 15$. Maybe less, given the filth on it. The VCU students would have snagged it if I hadn't. Gawd knows what would have happened to it then. I'm a-fixin' it up as a tourer, although I will strap a wire basket onto the back rack just so I lose some coolness points. Nothing against fixie conversions, I've done several, but a bike like this is so task/use-specific I ain't messing with it. Much.

"Those mechs are original xt! hehehehe!"

Hard to tell if you're serious with all that guffawing, but thanks for the id... they're pretty nice mechs, though I really wanted the duopars. Too bad I sold the last ones I had.

"For $7.50 on eBay (I was the only bidder), allow me to persent my new Mondia Super brake levers - a nice set of Suntour Superbe's. I've spent less on whole bikes"

Yeah, I've bought single bikes cheap and then spent more on a single part than I did for the rest of the bike combined, too. Such prolifigate spending habits we have.