Originally Posted by ducati
This is not as easy as it sounds in some areas. In my town, good used bikes are nonexistant at bike shops, difficult to find on Craigslist (as in you'll spend months looking in Cig's price range)
Tell me about it. I've looked at the San Francisco craigslist bike listings a few times. They get more listings there in a single day than we get here in a month (and 85% of the listings here are for mountain bikes -- which I suppose is nice if that's what you're looking for). Feh.