>>1924890>people have money to buy bikes, period. That keeps the prices of used bikes from dropping through the floor.The entry/mid club level decent classic bikes are not desirable to retrodouche enthusiasts or internet dickswingers or athletes.
I'm trying to remember what we are even arguing about and I think it's this:
There is a sentiment on /n/ that someone posting here can do better by fixing up a decent old used bike, than they can by buying a new bottom end 3x7 coil fork tourney thing from india/china or equivelant bottom end bike
Now are you telling me that basic cromo 90s bikes, tange 900, pg tubing, aelle, 501, tretubi, etc with exage or stx or old 105 or whatever, that kind of thing, is expensive/unobtainable where you live? Or, even generally? I don't deny there's $200+ to properly overhaul a bike. But is a decent project really more than $100-$200 for you?
>Bro, don't buy that. I can buy a NOS 3rensho with dura ace wheels on my local craigslist for $10. There's an ad on my local "gum tree" where Ugo de Rosa's corpse will personally show up at my front door and weld me anything I want for $25, and then Emily Bridges will parachute to my front door in a g string tied to Manon Lloyd using rope tied in special Japanese pain knots and together give me a four hands erotic massage while deep tongue kissing each other and moaning to keep me entertained and erect as Gustav Faberge designs a headtube badge based on a family crest personally created on the spot for me. The bike will also have a missile launcher to kill cagers using a button hidden on the bar end plug and it comes with EPO injectors in the saddle to juice me up any time I get passed by some jerk on a plastic bike you don't even need. Total cost is less than $30. Everyone's used bike market is exactly like mine, if you argue with me you don't know SHIT about cycling because it doesn't need to be that amazing to make sense
