Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
We also had to collect from our customers for various magazine subscriptions and a $1000 life insurance policy that the Phila Evening Bulletin sold through its paperboys. I still remember the people who would stall on making 50¢ payments and make me come back several times before paying up.
BTW does anyone think there is a reasonably priced bicycle sold on the US market today that is suitable for 12-16 year old paperboys to deliver daily newspapers AND be good for all the other things a bicycle did for pre drivers license/non-chauffeured teens of the past?
I think that any entry level mtn bike would be great. I think you should be able to get by for $300 or a bit less. Whether or not that is "reasonably priced" is up for debate. A good used one should run about $100.
I hated the folks who couldn't come up with the $1.25 per month charge. If I got a dime tip a month I felt I was really making money!