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Where to get an inexpensive bicycle in seattle?

In anticipation that the weather may one day improve, I'd like to get a bike. I don't want to spend much esp. because good intentions often have a way of going awry.

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  • 41637_100000307986197_9119_n_small
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    Bike Works in Columbia City. http://www.bikeworks.org/

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    Although you've missed this season's auction by a day, I've heard that the UW bike centre has great cheap bikes- they sell/auction off bicycles that have been abandoned or left locked in areas posted NO BIKES on the UW campus (campus police confiscate them and hold them, waiting for theft reports, for three months before turning them over to the bike centre). It looks like they have some bikes year-round, so you might give them a shot even though you missed the auction: http://www.bike.uwaterloo.ca/bikecentre.html

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    There are many places that have sold used bikes in this town, if not used parts, from less than $350, or at most $250 in many cases:

    Crown Hill-JRA, Ballard-the guy behind the Salmon Bay Cafe?, Loyal Heights-the couple on 24th Ave NW by 75th, for kids bikes, the guy south of Salmon Bay park by NOMS, U Dist-Recycled Cycles, The Bike Shack, Counterbalance CD-20/20, The Bikery, Eastlake-Play it again Sports, REI basement, Beacon Hill-Hello Bicycle, Columbia City-Bikeworks, Georgetown-Bike So Good, Downtown-Mobius, Belltown(the Bicycle?) Pull-Apart, Bikes + Art on 2nd and Pike?, what the police confiscates, Goodwill, Value Village, craigslist users, when Montlake sells their rentals...

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    I'm in the same boat and find that many people have bikes they never use that I can try before I buy. Like you, I may find I use it as little as the person who's giving it away for next to nothing.

    If you don't know someone who will lend you a bike, I'd try Craigslist. Then if you find you use it a lot, you can buy a better one.

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