Hi folks,
I don't go often to bike jumbles, there are not so many of them here in the Netherlands, Mostly I try to find parts on national trade sites (for the Netherlands) You can find nice things there for very reasonable prices, Somethimes it's better to buy a complete bike, than some parts. In my town you have a secondhand store, and they have bikes, and the best is, that there are always some roadbikes, last month there was a Benotto bike for 30 euro's with campy nuovo record and a really ugly sandbrown 1 cm thick paintjob. There was also a full chrome motobecane with a 531 frame and shimano parts, i was to large for me, otherwise i would have bought it.
And I had an idea, that when you're on the street, especially in the city and you see a nice old roadbike that somebody is using for his normal everyday transportation, just put a post it on it, that tells the owner that you want to buy it!! Problably he doesn't know the historical facts about the bike, it's just a bike for him. Maybe it's not interested in other countries, but in the Netherlands it is!!
so if you have new ways to collect your bikes, let me know it's always interested to know how people get things.
greets,
Arno Volkers
5224 VG Den Bosch
The Netherlands