Originally Posted by
DX-MAN
Just guessing here, Art, but your friend likely rode a Pigeon, and has yet to see the difference between that and a sweet bike -- everyone here in my hometown is like that! The number of times I've heard: "You spent HOW MUCH for that bike? You coulda bought a CAR for that!"; if I had a dime for each, I could buy ANOTHER one! LOL! (My usual answer has always been: "Didn't WANT a car!")
To me, it's sickening how the car has become an INTERNATIONAL symbol of 'I made it!'
It's not how much money that I've spent on a bike that astounds most people, it's the mileage. My friend was totally amazed after first misreading my bike's odometer, realizing later on that it did not read tenths of miles. What he thought was in hundreds of miles, was actually in thousands of miles.