Originally Posted by KonAaron Snake

FYI - the enter/return key is on the right hand side of your keyboard, roughly in the center. You can use it to break up monotonous blocks of unreadable text, like that above.

You can also use the enter/return key to create things called paragraphs. A paragraph leads with a sentence that states what the paragraph is about, and is then supported and expounded upon by a few additional sentences. Typically 4-6 sentences comprise these things called paragraphs.

Originally Posted by KonAaron Snake

I think we're capable of making decisions for ourselves without your insight and/or commentary. I suggest you imitate adult behavior and worry about your own eccentricities.

And that shall end my interactions with you.

Originally Posted by Italuminium

I really like @gomango's laconic posting style.

short statements with many linebreaks.

cuts the bull, tells you what you need to know.

Originally Posted by Reynolds

Originally Posted by oddjob2

@noglider was the community biking advocate and the one man bike coop in Madison before he and Carol moved to the Big Apple.

Originally Posted by D1andonlyDman

I bought both the Trek and the Tommasini when they were current new bikes - the Trek in 1980 and the Tommasini in 1986. From the mid 1970s to the late 1980s, I was a serious rider - including having ridden across the U.S. in the summer of 1979 - and I bought the Trek with contribution from my parents to celebrate having crossed that item off of the bucket list, as my first build from a frame set, and since I really beat the crap out of my bike, a Rolls, on my cross-country trip. I bought the Tommasini to celebrate my first really good paying professional job which gave me plenty of disposable income - and it was also built for performance, whereas the Trek was built up for touring, including mountains, while loaded with gear - although it's still a pretty responsive frame, but not as fast as the Tommasini, and the componentry is entirely different on both, being optimized for very different purposes. Then, less than a couple of years after I got the Tommasini, of course, I got caught up in a career that involved long hours, and life in general intervened, and in the course of chasing rats in the rat race, I stopped riding, and put on well over 100 pounds over 25 years or so, going from 150 up to 284. I really didn't get on either of those bikes for more than 10 minutes at a time, maybe a dozen times, over the next 25 years. But I still had them. Well, about a year and a half ago, as I was maxing out the meds for Type II Diabetes, my doctor told me that my next choices were bariatric surgery or insulin, so I got serious about losing weight. Initially through diet alone, I dropped about 30 pounds. Then I started swimming regularly, and along with diet, I dropped another 25. Well, with the weather getting colder, and my favorite lap pools all outdoors, I figured that I was now in decent enough shape to get back on the bikes, and that was less than 2 months ago. I put both bikes back into riding trim, and I'm down to 205 now. But the reality is, I'm not hung up on bikes, it's biking that I'm interested in. I only would buy a bike if I actually had a need for the bike. The Trek and the Tommasini, being set up quite differently for different terrain and purpose, really would be all of the road bikes I need - except, as I said, I spend a lot of time doing stuff for my elderly parents at their house, which is 25 miles away from mine, and I wanted to have a bike to leave there - but I didn't want to not have my Trek here at my house, because I'm using it here, for things my Tommasini can't do, like very steep lengthy hills - of which there are plenty around my house, and carrying stuff like groceries. So that's the rationale for the Cannondale - to have a bike to leave at my parents house. And I also wanted something with a different frame material than steel which I'm very familiar with, and with 130mm rear spacing that could take a modern drivetrain without cold-setting my Trek frame. And really, other than maybe a fat-tire mountain bike for off-road trail riding, I couldn't see getting another one. The reality is, I'm pretty expert on bikes and components and bike technology up to 25 years ago - just not the current stuff - since I have a 25 year gap in my bicycling activity. But I have no desire to collect bikes that I don't actually have a need and a genuine use for. My initial inquiries in this thread did not start out as trolling - I was genuinely curious as to why people would have dozens of bikes that they obviously were not using the majority of. I do admit that when I started getting attacked for asking the questions, rather than getting genuine, non-defensive answers, I ramped up the aggressiveness of my responses.

And honestly, before I actually ride the thing, who knows if I'll keep the Cannondale or flip it, but I'd only flip it if it turns out I don't like riding an Aluminum frame bike.

Originally Posted by qclabrat

hmmm, exercise equip over-run by bikes, never saw that one before....
don't tell me you actually move the bikes and barbie Atv to use the treadmill or weight set
not busting on you, I have the same setup

Originally Posted by Italuminium

I really like @gomango's laconic posting style.

short statements with many linebreaks.

cuts the bull, tells you what you need to know.

Originally Posted by daf1009

OK...here is mine...

Originally Posted by gomango

My eyes were/are getting tired from many years of over-use (way too many books) and this style makes it easier for me to see on a smaller device.

Originally Posted by rootboy

I hear ya, you laconic sumbuck, you. I recently enlarged the type on my emails. I think it irks some folks but, I need to be able to read what I write.

Originally Posted by Reynolds

Not my place, but an old shop I went into once:

Originally Posted by gomango

Stuff everywhere.

Tools nowhere to be found.

Originally Posted by rootboy

Aint it the truth. I clean up the flat spots, then get to working on something.
Time goes by and before I know it, the place looks like this.

Originally Posted by daf1009

OK...here is mine...

Originally Posted by gomango

Thank you guys.

I stole the style from forum member Too Many Bikes when he stopped posting on this board.

My eyes were/are getting tired from many years of over-use (way too many books) and this style makes it easier for me to see on a smaller device.

Originally Posted by Bianchigirll

Bikes and workstand are in the living room.

Originally Posted by Reynolds

Not my place, but an old shop I went into once:

Originally Posted by Bicycle Addict

Hey all, Brent that is one sweet space a man could "waste" alot of time in there . . . and enjoy every minute!!!

Originally Posted by qclabrat

that can't be SanFran????
I also have a forest in the back but would mean I would need to over-take the master bathroom.
Again, crazy cool idyllic setting

Originally Posted by oddjob2

It looks like Marin County to me.

Originally Posted by obrentharris

Thanks! It is a fine place to putter with bikes and forget about accomplishing anything "important." The squirrels are my role models.






There's a man who knows his Bay Area Geography!
It's the thriving metropolis of Lagunitas, (population 600) ancestral home to the Lagunitas Brewing Company and gateway to Samuel P. Taylor State Park.

Brent