[drh4683]

As a kid, I always went to estate sales and garage sales with my bike. Mom and Dad never cared as long as I stayed relativley close to home, about a 10 mile radius. When you are a kid, 10 miles on a bike took some time! I found old TV's like crazy back in the early-mid 90's. the most common sets I found were zenith 4 tuber hybrids and the 16" tube type plastic case zenith sets from the early 70's.
One of my most memorable finds was back in 1994 when I was riding my bike home from school (7th grade) with my friend. There was a home getting a new roof put on and had a full dumpster of the old shingles, sitting on top of all the shingles was a zenith 16" plastic case tube set. I was a good 2 miles away from home at this point. My friend and I pulled the set and set it on the ground behind a bush so it would be "safe" untill we could get back. I got home and rigged up the radioflyer to my old schwinn and towed it home. I never forgot all the looks I would get whenever I was pulling a TV home on the bike.
I tried not to ask mom or dad about picking up a TV for me as it was always NO, but when I brought one home on the wagon, they had no choice. Id get yelled at but it never stopped me. They soon realized TV collecting was a hobby and they became open to it once I started to drive.
Seems like all of us have had the bike rigged up to a wagon before. Looking back, that was a lot of work to go through! You had to ride around to find the TV, then ride all the way home to get the wagon, ride back to the house you found it, pad it up, and safely balance the TV on the wagon so it would flip over on the ride home, not to mention ride home very slowly. Going up a hill was fun wasnt it? You had to put the bike into the lowest gear so you could pull that 70lb TV up the slope! Ive only got one "bike" find left in my collection (a ctc-22). Most of those sets I found got taken apart with my friends and we would keep the parts, as having the tubes and chassis to look at was more fun than the complete TV.

As far as my longest TV road trip, it was in 2003, I drove 900 miles round trip to trade a zenith chromacolor to jstout66 for a '68 rca table color set. Ive made several 600 mile round trips to captainmoody to trade sets, probably will be going back up there to trade off some other sets this spring.