Gotta love those college kids
05-26-10, 12:43 PM
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Gotta love those college kids
It is extremely rare that there are 2 articles in the paper that give me hope of good things to come. Today was one of those days.
The front page article was about the Formula 1 race coming to town. However the really good news was on the front of the next section-The UT abandoned bike auction.
https://www.statesman.com/news/local/...in-709140.html
Maybe I can find some of the old bikes I sold.
The front page article was about the Formula 1 race coming to town. However the really good news was on the front of the next section-The UT abandoned bike auction.
https://www.statesman.com/news/local/...in-709140.html
Maybe I can find some of the old bikes I sold.
05-26-10, 12:51 PM
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I guess Austin is up there with Boston when it comes to kids just abandoning bikes. Harvard now has a shop that resells the bikes after they have been tuned up.
Not sure there are any other school specific bike shops.
Bikes Not Bombs just celebrated shipping 40,000 bikes. I bet a significant portion of those are collected end of May and beginning of June.
I haven't resold one of my bikes yet...
Not sure there are any other school specific bike shops.
Bikes Not Bombs just celebrated shipping 40,000 bikes. I bet a significant portion of those are collected end of May and beginning of June.
I haven't resold one of my bikes yet...
05-26-10, 12:52 PM
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Like the article said, the kid didn't buy it. Mommy and daddy bought it. So who cares?
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05-26-10, 01:05 PM
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Exactly. Go to a city or community college campus, and the only thing abandoned are the U-locks hanging from the racks. An abandoned bike doesn't last too long being abandoned here. Well, as long as its ride-able. We have the singular "Grey Nastiness of a Thing" permanently cemented into the rack, but that's the only one...
Friggin rich kids...
Friggin rich kids...
05-26-10, 01:09 PM
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My old Varsity was my main means of transportation in college. By the time I graduated, my goal was to get a nice car and junk that bike, which I did, Riding a 40 lb. 10 speed around the hills of Austin was not what I called fun. It was about 10 years before I had the urge to ride again. I imagine that thought is pretty typical. At least I gave my bike to an underclassman who then junked it.
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My heavy early 1970s Schwinn Continental lasted less than a week at my college. Seems like a gang of bike thieves hit town that weekend, and stole hundreds (if not thousands of bikes). Easy pickins'.
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Our local college has surplus sales every month. In August there are typically 40-50 bikes up for auction. Some fairly decent and others are crap. I got a Trek Mountain Trak for my daughter last year and it needed a little clean up and no tuning. Can't get her off the thing. A vintage Bianchi sold a couple of years ago for $85.
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Lakehead University, in Thunder Bay, has partnered-up with Bicycles for Humanity and each Spring, conducts a Bicycle Round-Up. This year, departing students dropped off 112 nice old bikes for the cause. Next Fall, we will sell the bikes back to incoming students. Everybody wins.
