Originally Posted by kerkyra
This post makes me wish I knew enough about bikes to find one at a thrift store rather than searching on craigslist endlessly!
If you stick with us long enough, you will! We have a thread in here somewhere about how to determine the worthiness of bikes found in thrift shops/garage sales/CL.
There's
this thread which can help you AVOID some of the bike which are not really worth one's time and effort. Just keep in mind that some of us (short females) are pretty much stuck with stem shifters and high tensile steel, so we don't automatically object to bikes with those features.
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