Originally Posted by
corrado33
This!!
Call the local campus police department. They'll tell you when the bike auction is.
(Mine is coming up in a few weeks. Great place to get bikes super super cheap (a few dollars-100 bucks)) Don't bother trying to go there to look for a road bike, they always command a premium. Your best bet is to find a beat up (but nice) old mountain bike. Bring it home, give it a tune up, and it'll be better than 95% of the bikes on campus. Actually, that's a bit of an exaggeration. Lots of kids ride brand spankin new mountain bikes worth thousands of dollars. (And they leave them out in the rain!)
I shudder when I see a rocky mountain sitting in the rain locked to a rack.
A funny story. We were at campus unloading my son's stuff from my truck for the first time and I was talking to him about being safe riding his bike on campus.
As we were talking, a student rode right by us talking on his iPhone. Just as I was telling my son not to do that, the student missed the sidewalk ramp and hit the curb next to it and went over the handlebars, rolled and ended up on his feet still talking. Front wheel was toast.
It was the perfect visual aid.