While I think it's important to support LBS's, I bought only two of my bikes new. All of the rest have been used bikes that have presented me with opportunities to buy something different, or new to me. My stable includes road bikes, mountain bikes, touring bikes, vintage bikes, novelty bikes, a fixie, a fat bike, hybrids, tandems, a triplet and a sociable, as well as short and long wheel-base recumbents and trikes. And as an ardent proponent of "N+1", I would never have been able to afford the variety of bikes that I have if I had bought them new.
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