Originally Posted by
cycleheimer
Were these trade-ins? Repairs people didn't pick up? Sounds like you have journeyed into the promised land! Hopefully, you can get a good deal or two from the owner. What do you do in a case like this...keep a glycerine tablet under your tongue to help prevent a heart attack?
Most of them were purchased at auction, others purchased by the lot, others still purchased one by one.
This is the summer stock of bikes, I told the owner to stop buying bikes unless it's something really nice, for the love of god, no more Schwinns (Unless it's a Paramount or something)!
I keep a cold shower on standby in case of rapid heart beat, sweating, and blurred vision.
I gotta find some info on these Jupiter Beat Deluxes he has, with octagonal tubing, pretty cool looking bike.
The really heart wrenching ones are the Centurion, Styer, and Univega with the cable guides (and in the case of the Univega, the derailleur hanger) hacked off. I'm glad they ride bikes, but the hipsters need to stop killing these old frames, Maybe I'll bone up on brazing and fix them.