[RKDinOKC]

Back in college I got my cool 10 speed stolen. I had done some tuning and a custom paint job. They snipped the big ars chain. I searched around the small college town but never found the bike.

Anyway, I replaced it with a really cheap used JC Penny 10 speed. Had to spray it with WD-40 to get the rusty bits to work well enough to shift gears. It was so ugly I didn't even have to bother locking it up. The cool thing was the shifter mechanism was messed up somehow and would automatically shift the rear to the highest gear. Pull it back into 1st to start out and it would slowly shift through the gears and back into 5th. I loved it. Carrying books and stuff around campus shifting was a hassle, it's shifting thing was like having an automatic transmission.

After college I gave the bike to my brother and he took it to a bike shop and had the "automatic shifter" fixed. Guess he didn't have the legs to cruise around in 4th or 5th once you got going.