Originally Posted by LittleBigMan
Well, my $15 (30 year-old?) French piece-of-work now has a full $35 invested in it. That's $15 for the bike, $10 for an old Raleigh which supplied a front derailleur, shift levers and an old Swiss rack, and $10 for some new toe-clips.
Cool side-effect of this is that there's usually the better part of one or more bikes left over you can donate. I've bought whole bikes at the cop auction for $2.50 - 5.00 just to get a seat cover, or rack or the like. Then I donate the rest either to the group that fixes up bikes for underprivileged kids, or to the local anarchist bike collective.
Ten bucks for new toe-clips! Wow, how extravagent!
Now you've lost your mind.
