Here is the bike that was just the source of a heated discussion:

It was built on October 6, 1964, and it’s a Schwinn Co-Ed. After doing some further research, even if it was in much, much better condition, it would be worth about $150, which means this one is worth much, much less. I have now been given permission to do whatever I want with it.

I don’t know what I want to do with it. I like it, and it would be neat to have a working bicycle, but it’s going to have to have the rust removed, the gears and such cleaned and lubed, and it will need to be primed and painted … and probably needs new tires and tubes. I guess I have to decide if I personally feel like doing that much work on it and whether or not I will use it enough once that’s done to make it all worthwhile. It would be great if someone mechanically inclined would help me fix it up so I could ride it, but that isn’t going to happen. This will be another of those projects that is “all on me” to do. I guess I’ll take a few days to think about it. In the meantime, it’s moving outside, because I am not putting it back in the Box Room, and it can’t very well sit in the kitchen for a few days.