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In article <1992Jun5.222422.10699@leland.Stanford.EDU> gooch@leland.Stanford.EDU (Carl Gooch) writes:
>The average cost of a new bike which would be serviceable for the 
>hypothetical 6-mile commute with which this discussion began is somewhere 
>in the vicinity of $500-$600 dollars.

>Any other trade deficit questions? :-)

Yeah, why do you pay so much for your bicycles?  I spent $100 in 1985
for the bike which I ride to work today.  I spent another $100
repairing obvious problems, and since then I've spent about $300 more
on parts, fenders, rack, panniers, lights, more lights, bell, and
horn.  The trailer for the kid cost another 3 or 4 hundred dollars.

Oh yeah, the bike was built sometime before 1965, as near as the
former owner can recall.  My other bike cost me $320 back in 1974, and
would be rideable as soon as I got around to putting the right size
wheels on it again.  That bike has been in some serious accidents.

Mind you, the first three cars that I bought cost me $120 (1976),
$100, and $50 dollars (1979), but only one of them was driveable (but
it stayed driveable until I popped a tooth off the ring gear back in
1987 or 88).

Some people are just careless with their money, I guess :-).

David Chase
Sun