For two years I looked among the bikes at yard sales and garage sales for a “find.” Last Saturday, I found a workable and usable frame for FREE – just 1.8 miles from my house. The “find” (aka the bike) a “Panasonic DX2000,” made in 1981. It’s a double-butted frame made of Cro-Ml, crappy Shimano gears (12 speed) but mighty nice in terms of sizing. The bike was never really ridden as evident with the chain rings looking ‘new’ and unworn. The mileage (my guess) was well less than 1,000 miles total. It cost $250 new in 1981 – which was expensive for recreational bikes but cheap compared to racing bicycles. The “free” price tag was pretty kewl.

Today, the nomenclature “DX2000″ is used for a Panasonic fax machine.

The love of bikes is obvious, but the yearning for a single speed, fixed gear bike is overwhelming. I’ll work on it – and get back to you. The image is DX2000. The link is a NICE PANASONIC fixie.