I bought an old Schwinn bike at a yardsale for $6 when I was still in high school. I put about $20 into it, and rode it for more than 2 years and probably at LEAST 8000 miles. It was the coolest bike I've ever owned, and I wish I still had it. It was the first time I ever saw disk brakes on a bike, and it would be an AWESOME touring bike if I still had it.
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"There is no greater wonder than the way the face and character of a woman fit so perfectly in a man's mind, and stay there, and he could never tell you why. It just seems it was the thing he most wanted." Robert Louis Stevenson