Originally Posted by
Maelochs
The guy who needs a bike by Friday probably can't even get to the nearest CL offering ... he has no transport. But he can probably take a bus to Wal-mart and ride home.
Valuable point too. That month it took me to find my first one involved considerable amounts of time wasted driving around, and the one I wound up with was about 35 miles away. I did miss out on a couple finds BF members pointed out to me during that time, simply because I couldn't get to them in time.
There's generally a WalMart/Target/Meijer/KMart/your favorite big box store close to most, which stock a fairly consistent stock of bikes.