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Old 07-10-06 | 07:05 AM
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Little Darwin
The Improbable Bulk
 
Joined: Jul 2005
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From: Wilkes-Barre, PA

Bikes: Many

I feel better now...

On the positive side I only have 6 bikes.

1973/74 Sears 10 speed (received rom a friend, the original owner)
1989 Cannondale Tourer (tweaked rear triangle)
Raleigh MT-500 (being rebuilt as a comfort bike)
1988 Centurion Iran Man Master
Motobecane mixte franken-bike
2003 Giant Sedona DX

I hope to add a Schwinn Le Tour IV, and at that time probably eliminate the Cannondale from the fleet

I do find myself scanning garage sales, and thrft stores, but nothing has shown up worth my time. On yesterdays ride I did see an old Ross mtb at a garage sale, and of course had to stop and look... after all I saw bike wheels. I also passed several piles of stuff along the cub in one community (must be an upcoming neighborhood trash pickup), but didn't see anything but a couple of beat up 20" wheels.

Earlier in the ride, I also saw an old bike in the ditch that looks partially stripped and abandoned, but passed it up... It is a pink woman's frame and has drop bars and an ashtabula crank. I looked no further... But, I have been tempted to go pick it up a few times since then, just in case... I suspet I'll drive by at some point, but I hope by then that someone else haspicked it up... I don't have the room.
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