Scavenging

I think I have a problem!

I can't walk away from a bike. I saw this Schwinn, in cranberry like color in a local CL ad and took a ride to visit the seller. In person, the bike was much worse than the picture. It has corrosion or pitting on all Aluminum parts from salt water, because the previous owner said he used it on a trip to the Acadia National Park. It is a Schwinn Frontier.

Still, I bought it. I ignored that it was a ladies bike, too. My wife has a brand new Huffy 5 speed comfort bike. She is happy with that. She does not like more gears than that.

I cleaned it up and at least it rides good and feels lighter than the MGX. Took it to work a couple of times so far.

That was a few weeks ago.

A few months ago, I spotted a bike in Costco parking lot. It was locked to a handicap parking sign pole. Someone had already taken off the rear wheel and the cable casings are coming apart. Some plastic stuff is broken, too. Couple of weeks of followup with Costco and now the bike is home. A nice guy in the parking lot saw me struggling and helped me lift the bike up to get the cable off the pole.

Took off the rear rack, put it on the Schwinn mentioned above.

Took off the fork, the main part I was interested in, painted it with red Rustoleum paint and it should fit the MGX S20, which is sitting forkless, like a horse that needs to be put away. It will make an interesting site. Orange bike with red fork.

Harvested a cable for locking the bike from the Costco bike, too. BTW, it was a GT Windstream. Has nice upswept handlebars, too, which may go on the Miyata someday, to make it a comfortable touring bike.