Originally Posted by
BookFinder
Yes, I agree with the crazy side of that. I live in a college down and have several friends who manage rental properties. It is amazing how many high quality bicycles are just abandoned when the students leave each spring after graduation. Some people have no sense of the value of a dollar.
I am also an avid motorcyclist and is it mind boggling to realize how many impulse-buy $8,000 to $12,000 low mileage motorcycles there are in the carports across the country.
Unless you are the 1 in 10,000 who hits it perfect on the first try, anything you buy will take a bit of tweaking to make it completely comfortable. So when you know the size frame and other general specs you are hunting, you can shop and pounce on a deal.
The upshot is that if you can find it, there is an impulse-buy garage queen bicycle out there somewhere that can be your perfect fit.
I'm moving to transfer to Clemson and I'm leaning towards waiting to buy because they have a space on campus called the ReCycle Shop that takes abandoned bikes left on campus after each semester, fixes them up, and "adopts" them to students who fill out an application for just the price of the parts fix. You never know, they might have something perfect and if not, I can just go to the LBS and buy the Giant I was going to buy at home. Which is probably better considering I could actually utilize the free service stuff