All excellent advice. Thank you. I can see the reason for the addiction being easy. So many varieties. I am thinking of being real picky with the first purchase, since I see so many out there, especially for budget reasons. What started this was getting a visually attractive, but very badly neglected Polish made "Tyler" women's three speed for free from someone. Kind of cool in its own right.

I've tracked down basics on it, so I know it is low end, but a free experiment to see if I could bring it back. Practice. Though think it might be beyond repair; but considering that the woman had used it as "yard art" in the rainy northwest for a while, it's actually survived paint cosmetically quite well. Mechanically, another matter...no stuck seat post, but stem seems to be.

Pardon the "shoes" pic, never thought I'd be posting these anywhere. But yeah, having played with it even a little bit, makes me want a nice model, a men's one.