Originally Posted by
Don Gwinn
You might find that it only seems to be a bike problem because bikes are your area of expertise. I know more about firearms and knives than I do about bikes, and the prices people ask on Craigslist for knife-shaped objects literally stamped out of mysterious "surgical steels" from Pakistan (read: "technically, it is not fraud to label this metal as steel. In most countries.") are shocking. .
the thing that is shocking to me is the price people around here want for their welding torches. More than retail prices on stuff that's too old to rebuild. I figure that it's so old that people don't have any idea how much it cost their grandpa. The bikes are actually priced fairly reasonably. You almost never see a bike for $300 unless it cost much more than that originally