Sex Change on a beater MTB
10-18-15, 09:48 AM
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@Johnny Mullet - I like what you did to the bike - turned out to be a creative & good looking solution for what you intended. Bummer that your friend really didn't want to ride a bike after all. Nice thing you did for him though.
10-18-15, 09:55 AM
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$12.00 not including the Several, perhaps hundreds of Thousand $ for the Shop full of tools to do the job with..
10-18-15, 11:21 AM
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Sadly I went to visit my friend who was supposed to be riding this bike and to my dismay I seen the bike all nasty and dirty laying in the dirt with a couple garbage bags on top of it. I said
"WTF is this?"
And he said "I been riding it some. I was cleaning out the garage."
I can tell it was ridden, but I suspect his kids were riding it. I went over and picked the bike up and found the front rim taco'd and the chain was off the front chainrings and jammed in between the lowest gear and the bottom bracket. When I left his house he knew I was pissed. I simply said "When you want to enjoy that bike I spent a lot of time fixing it up bring it to my house."
I will be waiting.
"WTF is this?"
And he said "I been riding it some. I was cleaning out the garage."
I can tell it was ridden, but I suspect his kids were riding it. I went over and picked the bike up and found the front rim taco'd and the chain was off the front chainrings and jammed in between the lowest gear and the bottom bracket. When I left his house he knew I was pissed. I simply said "When you want to enjoy that bike I spent a lot of time fixing it up bring it to my house."
I will be waiting.
Last update on this bike. I went to visit my friend the other day because he needed help fixing his wife's van. I went to the door and his son said he was still sleeping. This was at 11:00 AM. I knew his wife's van needed fixed and since I brought all my own tools and he had the parts on the porch, I went ahead and changed out the srtuts and swaybar links while he slept the day away. Before I left I went around the back of the garage to take a leak and there was the Chaz Bono bike laying in the weeds. It's a gonner now.
I will NEVER try and do someone a favor and give away anything anymore. Maybe if I sold it to him he would have taken care of it.
R.I.P. Chaz ;(
I will NEVER try and do someone a favor and give away anything anymore. Maybe if I sold it to him he would have taken care of it.
R.I.P. Chaz ;(
At some point, one has to let things go. Certainly many things I have get worn over time.
But, I had a similar thing happen to me....
A while ago some friends brought me an old Raleigh 3-speed to "tune-up" for their mother. I just couldn't just slap some grease on it and send it on its way. So, I stripped it down. Steel wool for crumbling paint. Clearcoat. Grease all around. Bought 2 new 26x1 3/8 tires. And installed a set of ReeLights.
I thought it was beautiful, and should have made an excellent town bike.
It turns out she may not have ridden it as much as I had thought (rode other bikes).
I kind of wanted to see how well the bike held up over time. But, the last thing I heard, it ended up at a Garage Sale. I'm just hoping it sold for more than the cost of the tires and lights.
10-19-15, 04:23 PM
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10-19-15, 04:41 PM
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Electrical Plugs have "genders" steel pipe does not.
You wouldn't do that for someone else , their bike. for 12 Bucks I Bet.
You wouldn't do that for someone else , their bike. for 12 Bucks I Bet.
10-19-15, 08:26 PM
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What's up with nobody just thinking it's fun? You can find hundreds of better bikes to use, spend a lot less time and effort, and have all the free time in the world. That's all good and well, but if this is what Mullet really enjoys doing in his free time then how is the monetary value of someone else's free time relevant? Time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted time. Getting dirty hands and something cool you made at the end of it seems like pretty good payment to me.
Keep it up Johnny, it's cool that you enjoy bikes that others would scoff at. Too many people act like you can't enjoy riding until you spend thousands.
Keep it up Johnny, it's cool that you enjoy bikes that others would scoff at. Too many people act like you can't enjoy riding until you spend thousands.
10-22-15, 11:42 PM
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well, as long as no one pointed at you or your friend and said "thats a GIRL bike GIRLY GIRL sissy pants" then it was all a success, right? crisis averted.
