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Amesja
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There is a guy in McHenry who also has a crapton of bikes. I bought a Raleigh Sports from him once and talked to him for a while. He works with a guy who does home foreclosure cleanouts. There seems to always be a dumpsterload or two of crap that these guys need to clean out of houses after the bank takes them. People just tend to move out and abandon stuff behind. These guys need to go in and haul it out after the bank takes possession and before any repairs can be made or the house is put on the market.

Much of the junk just thrown into the dumpster although they do let some authorized folks pick through it and save the really valuable stuff for resale. But the banks are always in a hurry and most of the bikes that are in basements and garages are worthless BSO's anyhow. This McHenry guy picks the better stuff out and brings it home.

He's got a lot of stuff from middle of the road all the way up to strange and rare bikes.
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