Corydon Cycle & Sports

I spent $ 200 on an early-​90s model mountain bike. I’m talking internal cabling – this is not a bike which even approaches the mid-​90s. In addition to that, it was a nishiki. I spent $ 200 on an old nishiki… and maybe that made the owner think I was a sucker, because observe what followed:
A week or two later, I start getting bizarre flats near the inside of the rim, and after a couple of patches I notice that it’s my rim tape which is actually so old it’s breaking into tube-​puncturing shards. GREAT. I spent $ 200 on a 25 year old bike, and it came with the original vintage rim tape on it! Fine. So I go and get a new tube and rim tape. But I’m not sold a new rim tape. I think I actually got it for free, but that’s beside the point because I had already paid $ 200 for an antique with shoddy rim tape. So I buy my tube and get a free rim tape. Guess what? This rim tape is already cracking! So my replacement for the shitty used up rim tape is… a nearly-​used up rim tape! Thanks, bud.
Okay moving on. The next thing that happens [remember, none of these stories are more than two weeks apart (getting to and from work is becoming tricky)] is that my TIRE bulges through! Yes you heard me, I was riding a 25 year old TIRE! And, I don’t think I need to say, I spent $ 200 on this 25 year old used bike! I have spent a quarter of that price on bikes that I’ve ridden halfway across the damned country! And I got this one from a BIKE SHOP!
So okay, outrage aside. That’s a garbage tire, and a garbage rim tape. Surely the other components must have been checked? Oh no. Both of my shifters, made of shoddy plastic have now literally disintegrated and I have nothing. I have moved my chain to the outside of the front dérailleur because my shifters were full of microfractures which shortly became total part failures.
And through all of this, which has taken place in such a short time that the mechanic could not POSSIBLY forget who I am or how much I paid for his piece of shit bike, I have not been offered a SINGLE deal EXCEPT for that ONE GARBAGE RIM TAPE which he gave me for free.
Charge me $ 200 for GARBAGE, and then KEEP CHARGING ME TO REPLACE THE GARBAGE YOU SOLD ME?
Jesus Christ. Even that used-​up rim tape you gave me for free can’t save you now.