One man's trash.......

My kids never had new bikes. Always something we got from somebody or somewhere and needed tires and a little TLC. They didn't care.

When my youngest was about 13, I came home from a dump run with a really nice stunt type bike that someone had tossed. Just handed it to him and told him to tell me what it needs and we'll go get it. He fixed it and had a ball with it.