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Subject: Re: [BOB] iBOB cheapskate bike build challenge
Date: 4/7/2011 9:46:24 AM
List: Internet-BOB
I had the same thots Alex and a similar deal on a 1985 or so Trek 420. I paid
$20 for the whole thing and it didn't need anything to run. I had some new tires

that I didn't need that I put on and sold it, but as far as cheapskate that's
about as good a deal as you can get unless you get a better working bike for the

price. I'm like a lot of you all and have many bikes on hand. I'm a cheapskate
deluxe where all of my bikes over many years have been on the cheap. The most
expensive bikes I had was a 1980 Austro-Daimler Vent Noir that I paid $1000 for
and a Surly LHT I paid $400 including frame/fork/headset installed, tubus rack
and SKS fenders. Other than that, my bikes have all been more like $100. If they

weren't cheap I'd worry about getting it stolen here in the wonderful world of
the federal budget. I've had 3 or 4 bikes stolen over the years, one while I was

riding it.

Steve
Silver Spring, MD
http://www.mohrnet.com/bikeIndex.htm




----- Original Message ----
From: Alex Wetmore <alex@phred.org>
To: "bertin753@gmail.com" <bertin753@gmail.com>; "sdloveless@gmail.com"
<sdloveless@gmail.com>
Cc: internet-bob <internet-bob@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thu, April 7, 2011 12:20:30 PM
Subject: RE: [BOB] iBOB cheapskate bike build challenge

This is a strange challenge, cheap used bikes all depend on the deals that you
happen upon.

I bought a 1983 Trek 520 complete for $10 at a neighbor's garage sale in my
size. As delivered it required a new rear wheel (roughly $100) and otherwise
made a very nice sport tourer. I changed the brake levers and shifters, added
clipless pedals, and rode it for years looking like this:
http://phred.org/~alex/pictures/bikes/1984-trek-520/reduced/IMGP5198.JPG

So my total outlay was well under $150.

It is the type of bike that Dave Mann really likes. I always thought of it as a

randoneeuring bike light, with all of the annoyances of not having a well
integrated bike, but the advantages of being cheap.

Of course if my best friend came to me tomorrow and said "wow, that is a great
bike. Can you get me one like that for $150?" the answer is no. Those aren't
normal daily deals. For a while I had a collection of these 1983 Trek frames
and the other ones cost me up to $200 each (which I think is a very fair price),

not $10 for an entire bike.

My recent mountain bike is another pretty good deal, if you ignore the Rohloff
hub:
http://alexwetmore.org/?p=945

$100 frame, $100 forks, $35 brakes and levers, $40 front wheel, free tires,
cranks, pedals, handlebars from my collection. So under $300 until you get to
the rear wheel and shifter, which I have $1000 into. All of the items with
prices besides the Rohloff wheel came from the Seattle Bike Swap a few months
ago.

alex

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