If you're in a charitable frame of mind you could check out some of the neat youth organizations.

I was going to change my old TREK 1000 to a fixie... had it all priced and planned, then I read about (or maybe met a person at afestival thingie??) that worked with under-priveledged kids. They tought bike mechanics/bike building and the kids "earn" a bike.

Anyway, I got home and was looking at old Flash - newly tuned and taped, with "road-kill" barbie still strapped to the front from my last big ride. I decided that it would be a nice "prize" for some hard-working kid.

I took it to just such an organization - all I kept were the pedals. The guy who ran the place was overwhelmed and surprised by how good a condition my 1989 old friend was in. Flash has a new life... with a new person.

spazz