Quote Originally Posted by withm View Post
I love it when stuff like that happens!

I am on the road to HE** paved with good intentions. I am giving my old road bike to my sister but since she is not going to be able to deal with the technical stuff, I am going to buy 2 tubes, frame pump, patch kit, tire levers, something to put it in, and probably 2 new tires. Thinking to get wider tires for her - the widest they can get on this thing cause she will have some dirt roads to get out of her neighborhood each day. Oh and new battery for the computer. And a bit of minor tune up. I cleaned up the bike today - it's an old Raleigh aluminum bike with shifters on the down tube. This will replace one of the 6 bikes that we lost in the fire. Sigh.

Some gift, huh? I was going to trade it in on a new "city" bike or something for ME - they would give me ~$75 for it. Go figure.
Yeah, Martha, I know how that goes.

I took my old hybrid commuter in for a tuneup, planning to send it home with my sister when she visited a few months ago. Turns out it needed a new rear brake, too, but I wasn't willing to spring for that, not knowing if my sister would really ride it. So she ended up not taking the bike home with her. (She bought a new bike a few weeks ago, and so far likes riding it on the country roads around her house.)

A month later, I gave the old bike with the bad brake to a woman who had posted on Craigslist that her commuting bike had been stolen. I told her to pay it forward.