Some time ago my bicycle's freewheel gave up and I couldn't ride with my neighbor Gary, then Covid and my surgeries and I've lost a lot of strength and stamina. I needed to get my bike fixed to use it to build back.
I took the rear wheel to the bike shop and they said I needed a new freewheel, but they couldn't get parts. I got the hub off Amazon and took it in to them today. Five minutes later they had changed it and sold me two new tubes to replace the 20+ year old ones that don't hold air longer than an hour. Total cost $13.75 plus the $30 for the freewheel.
Waiting around for them to change it I was looking at the new bikes and was amazed at the cost of some of them. $3,500, $2,700, and those weren't the High Priced ones in the catalog!!! Even the BMX 20" bikes were $400-800, they had a couple of vintage Raleigh 3 speeds, in nice shape for $400.
My 20+ y/o 21 speed Giant cost me ~$700 on sale and I thought that was a lot of money at the time. But considering how nice it rides and how long it's lasted it was a good deal.
Now all I have to do is change out the inner tubes and get back on the road to recovery.