Originally Posted by
andrewclaus
I can sympathize. I often spend way too much time and sometimes money fixing something that many wouldn't fix. It's my own little way to counter the throw-away society. And I volunteer at a non-profit bike shop that has keeping old bikes out of the waste stream as a goal.
I used to volunteer at such a place, and bikes were evaluated and put into one of two streams - if the bottom bracket, seatpost and stem were all removable then the bike was slated for rehab and sent back out; if the seatpost, bottom bracket or stem was seized then the bike was stripped of all usable parts and the frame/fork/seapost was sent to the metal recycler.
Originally Posted by
andrewclaus
And I ride older, cheaper bikes that nobody comments on when they're looking at each others bikes at a rest stop. Welcome to the world of the retrogrouch.
If OP has his gotch in a wad over some comments about his old Supercycle cruiser with a seized seatpost, his skin is obviously too thin to be a successful retrogrouch.