Originally Posted by
Lbxpdx
He said he posted the derailleur sets, I bought a Shimano XT set too, from bent frames he was scraping. I don’t know the guy from atom, but he definitely knew his 80’s/90’s stuff. He made it sound like he just wanted to get rid of stuff. If I can buy 5 bikes in two weeks, sell two that pay for all of them and have three “free” bikes, I can see how someone could accumulate tons of bikes if the price is cheap over a few decades.
There's a guy in Pittsburgh who started a museum (Bicycle Heaven) with a story a lot like that. He's got dozens, if not hundreds, of Schwinn Stingrays, which is how it started. Then he branched out into more interesting things like five or six Bowden Spacelanders, an 1890's boneshaker, and the actual Pee Wee Herman bike.