Oh man, this is just too good. I did one of the original Velo Cheapo contests back around 2009-10 or so, but having to ride >= 100km is the business. I am half tempted to try to build a gravel bike and try slogging through a metric century of gravel.

The thing that sucks is that I just found two cheap bikes ($25 and $60) just before the beginning of the month, literally the first bikes I have bought in over 5 years, but I've already started stripping them down and working on them. Ah well, they probably don't truly fit the definition of clunker.