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$6000 dollar worth of bike, yet no clue
on: August 17, 2006, 16:35:20 PM
Saw a couple walking their bikes on the path yesterday, slowed down and asked if I could help them with the obvious puncture. "No, well just take it to the shop." Oh dear. "I can fix it in 5 minutes." "OK"

Really nice couple, but no clue about bikes, after I comment on their high zoot bikes the guy challenges me to guess how much he spent. One Dura Ace/Carbon, the womans was carbon/105. I said, "$2500 and $1500". "Naw, he said, we have to get the best as were never satisfied if we dont, these were $3500 and $2500.". Sheesh. For just riding up and down a bike path.

He asked me what I would get if I had $3500, as sort of a challenge. I said Id fly to the UK to have a beer with my internet buddies, but first stop by the Mercian shop to be measured for a custom frame, then a week of drinking, then pick up the custom frame, fly home, and build it up. :lol: "Yeah, but that would be a heavy bike". "Yeah, I said, it would build up to around 21 pounds." "Mines 19!" he exclaimed proudly.

When I was patching the tiny puncture, the man said to his wife Michelle, "look hon, hes doing it just like the video, I told you we should get one of those pump things." The wife, who was sweet as could be, was terribly annoyed at her bicycle, "with all I spent on this thing, and to think, a flat in the first WEEK!."

Anyway, before yall get too judgmental on these folks, and mind, they were very very polite southern folk, enjoy this one: Man asks, "Dude, youre always passing us here in the evenings at 50 mph, or at least it seems like it, what you ride, and how do you get that fast?!" "Just that old single speed laying in the grass, its got about $300 worth of parts hanging from it. To get fast, you have to simply get out and suffer routinely." "Oh..." he replied,a bit crestfallen.

Anyhow, Im not going to begrudge the uber wealthy their toys, and $6K isnt much compared to other hobbies, but its just a lesson to be learned in the attitudes of folks that think that money is the final solution.

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Re:$6000 dollar worth of bike, yet no clue
Reply #1 on: August 18, 2006, 00:26:25 AM
That sounds a bit like one of our fellow boardians.....

Re:$6000 dollar worth of bike, yet no clue
Reply #2 on: August 20, 2006, 19:06:41 PM
truth is stranger than fiction... ho hum, a fool and his money are soon parted...

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Re:$6000 dollar worth of bike, yet no clue
Reply #3 on: August 20, 2006, 19:23:28 PM
For the top atheletes money can be the answer, for everyone else its more to do with effort.

$6000 dollar worth of bike, yet no clue
Reply #4 on: August 20, 2006, 21:10:41 PM
Here is the funny part: I looked the guys Specialized up on the web, and it costs 2200 bucks, a tidy sum to be sure, more than fit to race on, but he had to lie and say it was 3500. :lol: What a moron, my decision to not pass judgement is lifted. :lol:

Heck, he could have gone online and, if he knew his and his wifes size, could have picked up a pair of 105 equipped race bikes for 800 to 1000 each. Dumbass. :lol:

Re:$6000 dollar worth of bike, yet no clue
Reply #5 on: August 20, 2006, 21:18:28 PM
I know the exact thing.

When I used to work in a bike shop, I used to get chav types come in on £100 bikes, and try telling me they were worth £5-600.

Id laugh at them and tell them to look around.  I work in a bike shop and they are worth sh*t.

Usually theyd get abusive.  Their dumb mates might fall for it.

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Re:$6000 dollar worth of bike, yet no clue
Reply #6 on: August 20, 2006, 21:47:55 PM
Just another reason why I dont lie about the £50,000 bike I dont own  :mrgreen:

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Reply #7 on: August 20, 2006, 21:57:22 PM
my imaginary bike is made from picasso pictures glued together.

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