probably not worth it but I want to get my old bike fixed up

[aponi]

When I went off to college in the (cough) fall of 1987 my dad bought me a Giant Iguana. He called it my "parking sticker". I rode the heck out of that thing all through college and for a while after college. I'm not sure exactly why I stopped riding. I got into running about that time so that's probably it. The fact that my husband has never been into riding might be a factor too. He owns a bike though and from time to time we'd break them out. We've ridden to a couple of football games, it's faster than driving and way cheaper than parking anywhere near the stadium. This summer I decided I wanted to train for a tri so I started riding. I rather quickly clued in that it was going to take a road bike to do the tri so that's the direction I went.

this is going somewhere hang in there

So now I have this road bike which I just LOVE.

I guess technically the Iguana is a mountain bike but that technology has changed so much since I got this bike that I dare say it is more of a hybrid now - no shocks for example.

What I want to do is get it fixed up. I don't know what all that would require. Given the smoothness of shifting gears on the road bike compared to the Iguana I'm guessing that I'm looking at getting a new chain and probabl derailers. The wheels are rusty so yea new wheels. I'm sure that this bike isn't worth what its going to cost to do all of this but given the history here I'm actually rather fond of this bike. Has anyone else even done this sort of thing? There is no way I cayn do any of this myself so we're heading to the LBS this weekend to talk to them. I'm just wondering how bad the sticker shock is going to be.

The bike in question is on the top. The cat seems impressed, he especially loves it when I fire up the air compressor to air up the tires.