Originally posted by --walt--
I think if you work hard, put more like $80 into the bike (cables, brake pads on top of tires and tubes) you'll have a bike worth $20 or $30.
Yes, but it will run circles around any new bike costing twice or thrice that $80 investment, which still makes it economically defensible.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
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