I've been browsing CL and occasionally ebay from time to time looking for hopefully some decent deal on an 80's or early 90s steel frame bike, preferably but not necessarily Italian. At the same time I'm also thinking about transferring at work to a closer location (see commuting forum).


Think it would make sense to kill 2 birds with one stone, or should I probably just keep the 2 ideas more or less separate? That is to say, for all I know I might find some delicious nugget among all the trash, say a sweet Bianchi or Battaglin that would simply be much too nice to consider leaving outside in the bike rack overnight at work.

But I've also been looking for a decent deal on a Schwinn Varsity (harder than you would think around these parts) too......but even that might be too nice a find to commute on.

I'm sure there's some folks who have been down this road before, even if just daydreaming.

Tom