There's one route I take in the electric car to get around the city's biggest hill that swings me through a parking lot of a town house/apartment complex. Last week on my way through, someone had obviously just moved out, because there was a giant pile of garbage at the curb.
In it was a bright pink girl's bike (wee one, with 12 or 14 inch rims). Neglected, kind of rusty, and one flat tire.
But I couldn't resist, so I stopped and stuck it in the back of the car. Carried on my twisting route around the Giant Amp Sucking Hill.
I now have enough donor bikes to make my own Bike-E style 'bent. Someone lent me a Bike-E for a couple of weeks, a bit more than a year ago, and I fell in love with it.
See my Bike-E thread.
Everyone should try a bent at least once.
Whether I'll actually get around to it... that's another question entirely. I have a bad habit of biting off more than I can chew, projects wise. I tend to dream and collect piles of junk more than I actually make stuff from said piles.
