General Cycling Discussion - Vote for CBhungry's anniversary gift!

Cast your votes, remember that I am unempolyed as far as earning income goes. I take care of our little one while CB works her butt off, such a nice one too ;).

If I did sell the Scalpel it will not yeild enough cash to buy nearly as nice a bike as it already is.

Anyway, Let me know what you think.

Oh, and BTW, she needs a medal of honor for enduring my company for 6 years. I can't get along with myself for that long!

Hand-me-downs make poor anniversary gifts. Go for the box of chocolates :-)

so far the overwellming result is to leave town!
Geee...you have made quite an impression with your fellow forum members. :lol: :lol:

so far the overwellming result is to leave town!
Geee...you have made quite an impression with your fellow forum members. :lol: :lol:


If you worry too much about what others think of you then you are not worrying enough about what makes you happy.

If you worry too much about what others think of you then you are not worrying enough about what makes you happy.

that's a bit hypocritical...since you put up a pole to ask others opinions on what gift to get, then say you shouldn't worry about what others think.

I would have thought that out a bit better. :lol: :lol:

Hmm, the traditional gifts for the 6th anniversary is candy or iron, so the chocolates do fit. However, a brand new steel framed bike would be awesome. Something fun for her (maybe) would be a Bianchi Pista! :D

Still looks like I need to pack.

You probably won't like my suggestion but; sell a gun , party less, buy her something she wants, tell her shes more important than either one :)

Still looks like I need to pack.

Well if you head this way you can always crash on my futon. :D

Somehow I think CB would be happy with anything you gave her ;)

uhh what happens when she finds this post?

Brendon

You know after reading so many of Sam's and CB's posts I never realized they were a couple. Here you have Sam the Crank Crushing Redneck and CB who is always polite and helpful. Guess this just proves opposites attract.
PS Sam, CB should have a better bike than you. ;)

i would have voted for you to leave town so she could find a better man...

But I figured, you were giving away bikes... that's makes you good enough :D.. just kidding..

give her the scalpel.. give here a box of chocolates.. and leave town..

I think she deserves a bike that fits right and is NEW even if its not quite the component set you would like. For her birthday, you could upgrade the NEW bike to Campy or Ultegra. :)

Good luck, and Happy Anniversary!

You probably won't like my suggestion but; sell a gun , party less, buy her something she wants, tell her shes more important than either one :)


DRAT!

I wish I would have said that.... :mad:

You probably won't like my suggestion but; sell a gun

But I just bought her a new handgun for Vday.


uhh what happens when she finds this post?

Brendon

Since she forgot our Anniversary the past two years maybe it will remind her ;)


give her the scalpel.. give here a box of chocolates.. and leave town..

That would be the perfect gift!


PS Sam, CB should have a better bike than you.

If she gets the Scalpel she will have the nicest bike speaking strictly about components and cost. My EPIC has lesser components and is a less expensive bike overall by about 600.00. But being used it will not bring nearly enough to replace with similar quality.



I think she deserves a bike that fits right and is NEW

She and I ride the exact same size bikes except in road bikes where the sizes come in much tighter increments. We are only 2cm different there. Mountain bikes we are identical so all her bikes fit me and all mine fit her. Cool huh? Our seat heights are within 3/4 inch of each other from center of BB. Her only preference is a more upright position with a riser stem.

Sam it's not the impression you made with the group. We're all in love with cb - that's why they are telling you to leave town (I'm too old for her or I would have voted that way too). The hell with money get her the bike she likes You can find a way to take care of little Sam and raise a little cash. Baby site for some of her friends ...

Good luck and happy anniversary to both of you!

Joe

Hmm, I forgot that our anniversary was coming up. (I'm just not into these things. I even forget my twin sister's birthday). If anything, Sam deserves a full bike shop for all my absentmindedness with such things like anniverseries and birthdays, christmas.....Heck, I couldn't even get together a birthday party for samantha's second year; my usual excuse, I was working.

As for the above choices....

1) Leaving town would just be impracticle since who would take care of Samantha while I was at work? Who else can find my beeper, cell phone and my glasses which I lose two to three times a day?


2) Don't much care for choclates

3) Why sell a bike in perfect usable condition that fits my height?

4) So that leaves.........guess what...hee, hee ,hee. (Besides, he hasn't ridden the Scalpel since he got the Epic.....or is this a ploy for me to buy him a bike for our anniversary?)

Now let's hope I remember this year.

So that leaves.........guess what...hee, hee ,hee. (Besides, he hasn't ridden the Scalpel since he got the Epic.....or is this a ploy for me to buy him a bike for our anniversary?)

Absolutely NOT. The next new bike in our house should be a new road bike for you! Even thoug your R2000 looks like it was just whisked off the showroom floor.

My old road bike which is a year newer looks like it has been run through an acid bath 100 times. My sweat can eat holes in steel plate 1" thick.

You know after reading so many of Sam's and CB's posts I never realized they were a couple. Here you have Sam the Crank Crushing Redneck and CB who is always polite and helpful.

I'm just the luckiest fella walkin the planet. :D

how about a nice new S&W 327 pc?

you can never go wrong with 8x .357

Well, No matter what HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!!!!!

She and I ride the exact same size bikes except in road bikes where the sizes come in much tighter increments. We are only 2cm different there. Mountain bikes we are identical so all her bikes fit me and all mine fit her. Cool huh? Our seat heights are within 3/4 inch of each other from center of BB. Her only preference is a more upright position with a riser stem.
wow, yeah that's really cool. my girlfriend is 5'1" and i'm 6'1" so well, somehow we don't ride the same size bikes... actually i did ride her new Epic a fair amount (we bought it for her over Christmas when we were in the US and as she had to be back sooner i had the "job" to use it to make it easier to import the bike as used) with a super-long seatpost and i kept hitting my knees on the bar - duh!

but yeah, if it fits and it's the bike she wants (sounds like it) then yeah!

1) Leaving town would just be impracticle since who would take care of Samantha while I was at work? Who else can find my beeper, cell phone and my glasses which I lose two to three times a day?


Judging by the "leave town" -answers there seems to be plenty of male volunteer Forum members. :D (and yes, I voted for "leave town")

Happy anniversary!!

--J

Well it looks like most are in agreement that I need to leave town so she can find a better man.

Which incedentally is exactly what would have to happen, while I am still in town there will never be a better man! ;)

Earn some income and get a baby sitter.

Who else can find my beeper, cell phone and my glasses which I lose two to three times a day?

Don't forget about the car keys! ;^)

Even though Sam and I differ in our political views I get a feeling we're a lot alike in other respects, so the Medal of Honor might be appropriate...

Earn some income and get a baby sitter.

Ha! :mad:

There is no better place for a parent to be than with his/her child!
Cherish your time with them, Sam! Before you know it they'll be asking to borrow the car. :p

Don't forget about the car keys! ;^)

:roflmao: I had forgotten that little incedent.


Even though Sam and I differ in our political views I get a feeling we're a lot alike in other respects, so the Medal of Honor might be appropriate...

Yep, I can be a real PITA. Even though I might debate politics with someone I don't use it as a factor for friendship. Politics are personal issues that each individual has to be able to live with.

I look forward to the day mine are out of the house and on the move to be independent.

Ha! :mad:

There is no better place for a parent to be than with his/her child!
Cherish your time with them, Sam! Before you know it they'll be asking to borrow the car. :p

So true; at the same time, let's remember that being a stay at home parent is not a cake walk. Perhaps, this explains Sam's occassional crankyness and need to live on these boards for any form of adult communication.

I used to think Sam was the lucky one for how patient and polite CB is; but perhaps CB is equally lucky to have a man that will support her in her career and apparently not suffer from that manly problem of feeling inferior from it.

My hats off to you.

Cherish your time with them, Sam! Before you know it they'll be asking to borrow the car.

Just as long as they do not want to borrow my BIKE!

Twin sister??? Single?

Twin sister??? Single?

She is also married. But she is also not a cyclist or even a very active person at all.

So true; at the same time, let's remember that being a stay at home parent is not a cake walk. Perhaps, this explains Sam's occassional crankyness and need to live on these boards for any form of adult communication.

I used to think Sam was the lucky one for how patient and polite CB is; but perhaps CB is equally lucky to have a man that will support her in her career and apparently not suffer from that manly problem of feeling inferior from it.

My hats off to you.

You stole the words right out of my mouth.

Dag nabbit! Foiled again...I guess I'm off to the local rail trail to troll for single, pretty, physician women who would be willing to let me hang out at home with the kids. That's not to tall an order is it?

So true; at the same time, let's remember that being a stay at home parent is not a cake walk. Perhaps, this explains Sam's occassional crankyness and need to live on these boards for any form of adult communication.

I used to think Sam was the lucky one for how patient and polite CB is; but perhaps CB is equally lucky to have a man that will support her in her career and apparently not suffer from that manly problem of feeling inferior from it.

My hats off to you.

Considering our polar opposite opinions on many things I find this a supremely generous compliment. Thank you Erraticrider.

There are many hurdles to giving up ones independance and general ability to make all your own decisions to give up career and raise the kid(s). Not to mention my own career had only just come into its own and was yeilding very high pay and self esteem rewards. I had ground my way up through the workforce for over 15 years for peanuts and just over the last three years of my career had experienced a doubling of my personal income and a leap into a much more rewarding position. I sometimes question bailing out on such career sucess since I had only just begun to experience it. Perhaps it was good in a way that I had not become completely spoiled by the sudden increase in pay/position.

And you are right. This is sometimes my only form of adult conversation. Peek a boo, winnie the pooh, and elmo cannot satisfy the need for adult interaction.

I am in fact one of the luckiest men alive and I often wonder why God has smiled upon me so much by sending Christy my way.

CBhungry is truly a special delivery straight from heaven.

Thanks again for the compliment. Can we start arguing again now?

Dag nabbit! Foiled again...I guess I'm off to the local rail trail to troll for single, pretty, physician women who would be willing to let me hang out at home with the kids. That's not to tall an order is it?

You live so far away dude or I could probably help you out. Meeting and talking to female cyclists when you are hanging out with a dad with his cute little girl in the cart is as easy as 1 2 3. And many of them are looking for a companion to ride with. You could be the available batchelor while I make them ultra comfortable striking up conversation.

Thanks again for the compliment. Can we start arguing again now?


Well, o.k., if you insist.

Why don't you just go f*** yourself already.

I was tired of this forum anyway. I'll see you out back in the politics and religion forum where its cold and dark and where those who can't stand polite company hang out.

Well, o.k., if you insist.

Why don't you just go f*** yourself already.

Heee's baaack! Atta boy, lets rock and roll ;)

get 'er some kinky lengerie and make her feel fine! lot's of chocolate too! and go do something she likes.