Bikes

If anyone knows of anyone looking to sell their road bike (I don't know why anyone would, but it's worth a shot...), I'd be interested in taking a look at it. I can't justify spending at least $600 for a new road bike, even though if I did, I'd probably ride it a lot and get my dollars worth. Given my lengthy recovery from surgery, I won't be doing much, if any, running this spring and summer, so I really need a bike. The stationary bike is getting boring already, and I've only been using it since March 21st.

During my first marathon buildup, I didn't do much in the way of cross-training and overemphasized running volume. When I'm given the green light to begin running again, I'm going to take AT LEAST six months to rebuild a solid aerobic base (not that it has ever been solid) and do a significant number of miles on the bike. Then, maybe, I'll introduce some anaerobic training. In the meantime, I look forward to a lot of plain vanilla distance running, as Rob Taylor puts it in his article "Smarter, Not Harder," this fall.

Anyway, help me find a bike! I'd take anything between 56 and 60cm (not sure if this is a med or lg frame for those manufacturers that don't use the cm measurement). I regularly check craigslist.com and eBay, but I have to imagine that there are other ways to go about getting used stuff.

Thanks.