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I'm 36, back in 84ish I worked all summer washing big rigs to buy my first bike, a kuwahara......I lived in the next town over from frankfurt bicycles (they had ads in ecery mag for years and years), a few months after I bought it I was at the shop to buy better tires and someone swiped it from out front, it really pissed me off and taught me to protect my investments well......the owner of frankfurt felt really bad as I was one of those regular kids who spent a lot of time there but didn't have any money, so he gave me a gt performer and let me pay him a little each week until it was paid for.....
I'll never forget that, he was a really super guy who did something to help a hard working kid who was dealt a bad hand.
I moved away in 1990, a few years ago I took a road trip and stopped in his shop to find he had bought the adjacent parking lot/building and more than doubled his space and seems to be still going strong after all these years, although it's been a few years since I've been there I hope he's doing well.