Sometimes you score BIG at the thrift store...

[BiggJawn]

You'd have to be a bikee to understand, but I'm tickled...

Tonight's find:

Schwinn "Supersport", second in quality only to the "Paramount", with hand-brazed filet-brazed frame. unfortunately, the frame is garbage, because the top tube has a kink in it.

Bit...
I have 2 fair wheels with "schwinn approved" Mavic QR hubs, Weinmann 27X1-1/8 rims.

Weinmann side-pull brakes.

And......

The rest of it is Shimano "105". Cranks, shifters, deraileurs, freewheel...AND "Biopace" chainwheels.

Price?

$10.99....:7

Week before last it was a Raleigh USA "Technium 440" aluminum framed in my daughter's size. Dirty, and with rotten tyres, but for $15.99 was I gonna complain?

I love thrift stores!

[toddzilla]

1. biopace..

hehe, that's pretty old school. My dad still has a trek with biopace chainrings on it.

[BiggJawn]

3. Hey, you'll REALLY chuckle over this...

Shimano "333" shifters...Sakae "Maxy" crankarms...Suntour "Altus" deraileurs...."Atom" Freewheels (that's right, folks, he said "freewheels", not "Cassettes")

Sorry, around HERE, when you say "Ten Speed" that means 5 in the back and 2 up front, not 10 in the rear..."STI" is something you wear rubbers to avoid...

BiggJawn's Frankenbike Farms, where "Old School" is ALWAYS in session...

BTW, I'm probably older than your dad, too....

[mn9driver]

2. Had a Schwinn Varsity once.

I bought it from Billy Ford (yeah, THAT Bill Ford) when we were in eighth grade together ca. 1971, almost new for $20. It got stolen a few years later after I'd put a couple thousand miles on it.

[Unperson 309]

4. Amen, Bruthah!

Today I scored a beautiful Persian carpet, 7'6" X 10'6" in excellent condition! $100.00. Saw on exactly like it for 2K in a store recently.

Best finds? $300.00 necklace (appraised value) in a $1.00 bin
and a solid 22 kt gold watchfob with garnet and obsidian inlay for 25 cents.

Being one who loves to spread light instead of darkness, I paid $10.00 for the necklace, delighting the seller and $10.00 for the fob.

Weirdest/coolest find? An expensive inlaid cigar box with a brass plaque reading "Gift of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos" with the country's coat of arms in ivory on the top.

Oh, and the cane toad coin purse! TOO cool!

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[BiggJawn]

5. Ferd and Imelda's CIGAR BOX???

Too cool! any shoes inside? :evilgrin: