Best place toget a cheap bicycle?

[notfred]

I'm thinknig graage sale or flea market. I'm going to live a little over amile from work starting on the 25th, and I figured it'd be better for me (and my car) if I rode a bike to work every day. So, wher ecan I get a cheap bike for like $50-100. It doesn't need to be fancy or anything. A 10 speed schwinn made in 1962 would probably work fine.

Any bicycle suggestions?

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Just pull one off of a bike rack somewhere. Those are free.

 

[Ornery]

Are you kidding? That's a ton of money for a used bike. Head over to Toys R Us and see what you can get for $75.00 - $100.00. Most bike shops will have used ones. There's a few places online that sell old classics for varying prices. I'll find a link or two... How about 100 links?!

 

[Smacksmackums]

<< Just pull one off of a bike rack somewhere. Those are free. >>

 

[aphex]

Off a crack addict would be good. They'll sell anything for $4.

 

[Fausto]

Check garage sales, post boards in bike shops, and local paper. I'd avoid the K-Mart/Target/etc bikes as they are absolute crap.

Pester the bike shop guys and see if they have something sitting around in the shop that you could take off their hands. There were always one or two orphan bikes gathering dust when I worked at a shop years ago.

Fausto

 

[LuNoTiCK]

If you plan on riding the bike to work every day, why go cheap on it? I would want something at least decent on a bike.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Go to a local community college and just grab one as an Asian exchange student rides by. The Asian students typically don't weigh too much, and they can't give very good descriptions of their assailants due to the inherent language barrier.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Good for you notfred There are a lot of good reasons to ride to work every day, among them, exercise, less pollution, money out of the oil companies pockets, and with gas prices rising you'll end up saving a couple $ as well. I agree that you should consider a decent bike though as you may discover you get so much stoke riding it that you'll ride just to ride

 

[Ornery]

Did you guys say something about decent? Raleigh Sport 3 speed for $125.00 is more than decent. I bought one 35 years ago and still own it! Leather Brooks saddle and Sturmey Archer internal gears. No foo-foo frilly derailier to fuss with all the time!

"...these were designed to provide solid, dependable transportation for the British public, at a time when only the upper classes had motorcars. These bikes were built to last 100 years, with reasonable care." - Sheldon Brown

 

[BuckleDownBen]

I got my wife a pretty decent bike at Target for $100.

 

[notfred]

I don't even know what kind of bike I should get. I'm going to ride it on a paved bike trail.

 

[jadinolf]

I don't know if you have police recovered stolen good sales where you live but that would be a good possibility.

 

[fastz28]

Pawn shop near university - nice and cheap.

 

[yakko]

Pawn shop.

 

[Adul]

kmart

 

[Thegonagle]

<< I got my wife a pretty decent bike at Target for $100. >>

Sorry, but no you didn't.


<< kmart >>


That stuff is trash, plain and simple.

If you want to pay less than $200-250, you need to be considering used bikes.

There's a reason that you don't see Huffy and Murray in bike stores (they're no good, they use cheap, off-brand non industry-standard parts attached to poor, "one size fits all" frames), just like there is a reason you don't see Trek, Schwinn, or Specialized at Target (the manufacturers don't allow it, in order to ensure proper service and protect their reputations.)

Bikes are not toys! <-- Read about it.

 

[Kenny0829]

All Bikes wether good or not can be had for

$40.00

Yes that's right, I can get you a $300.00 bike for

$40.00

First go to Home Depot...

Ask where they sell their

BOLT CUTTERS........

a good pair run around $40.00

Then just go pick out the bike you want....