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It happens to be that I've ALSO been wanting to start up a local junior/youth cycling club, with the hope of a competitive team eventually growing out of it, just for sake of my own kids. I hadn't even thought about sponsorship, for that, but I guess I certainly would be - figured I'd probably be subsidizing to some degree... but the bikes. The bikes have held me up - youth especially, but even junior sizes are hard to find and expensive, and here in my ｷｷｷｷty little town it's all $75 Walmart MTBs.
I've been meaning to post a thread on building up 650 junior size frames from steel tube kits... but even building the kits (and doing the welding myself for free) I'm still looking at $500/pop for a proper road bike, with old used groups and handbuilt cheap wheels (also free labor from me).. I just don't see these hick town section-8 single mothers forking out any kind of money so their kids can "go ride bikes with that spandex wearing fag"
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where are we going, and why am i in this handbasket?
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