College Bike Options

Apropos of Joerg's stories of his on-campus beaters with welded cottered cranks, savvy students in modern times should consider the campus surplus store. I was over at the University of Utah surplus "store" (a small, three story warehouse), and they had dozens of bikes in the $50-75 range, including a couple almost new Trek FXs. It's amazing what kids will leave behind. There was tons of junk, but a surprising number of not-bad bikes.

-- Jay Beattie.

Maybe times have changed. 25 years ago there was no such thing as a college store at my college. It was a large state university like Utah. We did have a college sponsored book, clothing, etc. store inside the student union. New stuff. But no furniture, bicycle, electronics, junk store.


On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 9:17:58 AM UTC-5, jbeattie wrote:
Apropos of Joerg's stories of his on-campus beaters with welded cottered cranks, savvy students in modern times should consider the campus surplus store. I was over at the University of Utah surplus "store" (a small, three story warehouse), and they had dozens of bikes in the $50-75 range, including a couple almost new Trek FXs. It's amazing what kids will leave behind. There was tons of junk, but a surprising number of not-bad bikes.

-- Jay Beattie.

On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 10:50:32 AM UTC-7, wrote:
Maybe times have changed. 25 years ago there was no such thing as a college store at my college. It was a large state university like Utah. We did have a college sponsored book, clothing, etc. store inside the student union. New stuff. But no furniture, bicycle, electronics, junk store.


It's a surplus disposal center that also handles abandoned items. http://fbs.admin.utah.edu/surplus/ There are a lot of government agencies in the business of selling surplus.https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm

-- Jay Beattie.

On 2016-08-16 07:17, jbeattie wrote:
Apropos of Joerg's stories of his on-campus beaters with welded
cottered cranks, savvy students in modern times should consider the
campus surplus store. I was over at the University of Utah surplus
"store" (a small, three story warehouse), and they had dozens of
bikes in the $50-75 range, including a couple almost new Trek FXs.
It's amazing what kids will leave behind. There was tons of junk,
but a surprising number of not-bad bikes.


It's the usual sad story. Upon graduation dad buys them a shiny new
Mercedes-Benz which has a ton more appeal to them than the trusty old
Trek. Plus a credit card or big check. Afterwards they buy themselves
the matching attache briefcase, some nice suits, silk shirts, ties,
tassel shoes and whatnot. Then they dump their bikes and all the other
stuff and never look back. Meaning they also typically don't ride much
anymore.

I got my bikes via a huge peg board in the hallway of the largest
cantina of my university. Luckily that came without an obligation to eat
there. No Treks back then, it was all department store road bikes which
lasted about a year each.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 07:17:55 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

Apropos of Joerg's stories of his on-campus beaters with welded cottered cranks, savvy students in modern times should consider the campus surplus store. I was over at the University of Utah surplus "store" (a small, three story warehouse), and they had dozens of bikes in the $50-75 range, including a couple almost new Trek FXs. It's amazing what kids will leave behind. There was tons of junk, but a surprising number of not-bad bikes.

-- Jay Beattie.

Hey Man! Dad bought me a new car for graduation. You don't expect me
to be dragging some tattered old four year old bicycle around, do you?
--
cheers,

John B.

Call Lieb ...Penn State sells thru Ebay...

On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 1:15:29 AM UTC-4, DATAKOLL MARINE RESEARCH wrote:
Call Lieb ...Penn State sells thru Ebay...

Penn has a buy on Sandusky autographed shower curtains......

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.2755155