Originally Posted by chrispe

Any specific tips on where and how to find bikes? I know enough to know a reasonable buy if I ever saw one. I would like to fix the occasional bike and resell it, but I can never find any to fix. I check craigslist several times a day, but in my area there's nothing reasonable. I check thrift shops when I'm riding around, but have kind of given up because I haven't once seen anything remotely interesting(for the price it was at). I feel like garage sales are my only bet, but I feel like I'll end up spending more time actually finding bikes than fixing them. So am I just out of luck or what?